Prunocarpus
No picture of Prunocarpus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Prunocarpus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpumellariaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 59.24 Mya.
16 occurrences of Prunocarpus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
16 occurrences- Late Cretaceous31%
- Paleocene69%
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 Prunocarpus 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.
Prunocarpus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Prunocarpus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Amphipyndax stocki16 sites
- Lithomespilus16 sites
- Stichomitra carnegiense16 sites
- Actinomminae15 sites
- Dictyomitra andersoni15 sites
- Dictyomitra multicostata15 sites
- Eucyrtidiidae15 sites
- Lithocampe15 sites
- Lithomelissa15 sites
- Mita15 sites
- Myllocercion15 sites
- Theocapsomma15 sites
- Cyrtocapsa14 sites
- Stichomitra14 sites
- Lithelius13 sites
- Theocapsomma amphora13 sites
- Amphisphaera12 sites
- Archaeodictyomitra12 sites
- Artostrobiidae12 sites
- Bathropyramis12 sites
- Dictyomitra12 sites
- Phaseliforma subcarinata12 sites
- Amphipternis11 sites
- Carpocaniidae11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Prunocarpus, 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 references- Stratigraphic, paleontological and geochemical data from Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleocene strata in southeastern Marlborough, New Zealand15
- Uppermost Maastrichtian Radiolaria from the Magura Nappe deposits, Czech Outer Carpathians1
Each of the 16 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Prunocarpus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Prunocarpus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prunocarpus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpumellaria through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.