Pithonoton

Pithonoton

Armin Reindl · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniodromitidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Goniodromitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 16 of 21 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 21 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 21 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 21 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 6 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–146 Mya — about 4 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 5 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157.9 Mya66 Mya204 Mya59 Mya

21 occurrences of Pithonoton on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

21 occurrences

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

4 formations

Painten — 48.92°N, 11.53°ECasimcea — 44.50°N, 28.43°EFonzaso — 46.25°N, 13.00°EWills Point — 31.67°N, 96.57°W

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The named rock units Pithonoton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pithonoton and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pithonoton and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

169 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pithonoton, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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

15 references

Each of the 21 occurrences 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. 3 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pithonoton

Credit
Armin Reindl
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pithonoton was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGoniodromitidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Meyer 1842)