Piercites pentagona
No picture of Piercites pentagona was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Piercites pentagona firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Piercites pentagona on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group1
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The named rock units Piercites pentagona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Piercites pentagona and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Piercites pentagona and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Achomosphaera ramulifera1 site
- Andalusiella1 site
- Andalusiella mauthei1 site
- Areoligera1 site
- Areoligera cf. tauloma1 site
- Botryococcus1 site
- Cerodinium cf. pannuceum1 site
- Cordosphaeridium1 site
- Deflandrea galeata1 site
- Dinoflagellata1 site
- Disphaerogena carposphaeropsis1 site
- Florentinia1 site
- Glaphyrocysta retiintexta1 site
- Palaeocystodinium golzowense1 site
- Palaeocystodinium lidiae1 site
- Palambages morulosa1 site
- Phelodinium magnificum1 site
- Pterospermella australiense1 site
- Senegalinium bicavatum1 site
- Spiniferites1 site
- Spiniferites granulatus1 site
- Tityrosphaeridium tenuistriatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Piercites pentagona, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Piercites pentagona was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Piercites pentagona firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Piercites pentagona was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.