Porochara

Porochara

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PorocharaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Charophyta
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Charophyta

Time the record covers

At least 146 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 13 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 13 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–149 Mya — about 3 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–136 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences205.7 Mya59.24 Mya241 Mya44 Mya

13 occurrences of Porochara on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

13 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

9 formations

Muñani — 15.73°S, 70.17°WBagua — 5.51°S, 78.55°WBagua — 5.74°S, 78.51°WAlcobaça — 39.70°N, 8.80°WNorth Horn — 39.27°N, 111.25°WCabaços — 39.91°N, 8.95°WLourinhã — 39.22°N, 9.34°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Boca do Chapim — 38.40°N, 9.22°WGrabowa — 50.67°N, 18.28°ECerro del Pueblo — 25.54°N, 101.36°W

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The named rock units Porochara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Porochara and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

301 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Porochara, 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

8 references

Each of the 13 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. 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 Porochara

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Porochara 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 itPorocharaceae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maedler 1955