Potamogeton pygmaeus
No picture of Potamogeton pygmaeus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Potamogeton pygmaeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PotamogetonPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
6 occurrences of Potamogeton pygmaeus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Potamogeton pygmaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Potamogeton pygmaeus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Potamogeton pygmaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Actinidia crassisperma5 sites
- Brasenia ovula5 sites
- Caricoidea obscura5 sites
- Eomastixia rugosa5 sites
- Eurya (Cleyera) stigmosa5 sites
- Limnocarpus forbesi5 sites
- Mastixicarpum crassum5 sites
- Rhamnospermum bilobatum5 sites
- Sequoia couttsiae5 sites
- Stratiotes hantonensis5 sites
- Hantsia pulchra4 sites
- Mastixia glandulosa4 sites
- Protoaltingia hantonensis4 sites
- Vitis4 sites
- Acrostichum lanzaeanum3 sites
- Calamus daemonorops3 sites
- Caricoidea angulata3 sites
- Carpinus boveyanus3 sites
- Carpolithus3 sites
- Cornus glandulosa3 sites
- Cupressistrobus gardneri3 sites
- Epacridicarpum headonense3 sites
- Fabaceae3 sites
- Laurocarpum3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Potamogeton pygmaeus, 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
2 referencesEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Potamogeton pygmaeus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Potamogeton pygmaeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Potamogeton pygmaeus 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 itPotamogeton through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chandler 1925