Pygaulus

Pygaulus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NucleolitidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 23 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132.6 Mya93.9 Mya138 Mya88.9 Mya

23 occurrences of Pygaulus 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

23 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.

Pygaulus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pygaulus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Pygaulus, 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

3 references

Each of the 23 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 Pygaulus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNucleolitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.