Pyrgo
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiliolidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 89 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
1,128 occurrences of Pyrgo on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
1,128 occurrences- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
- Paleocene3%
- Eocene2%
- Oligocene4%
- Miocene19%
- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene58%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
22 formations
- Qom Formation Formation47
- Sinjar Formation28
- Sylhet Formation Formation24
- Guitar Formation Formation5
- Lower Coralline Limestone Formation4
- Lindos Acropolis Formation2
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The named rock units Pyrgo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,001 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pyrgo and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pyrgo and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
947 taxa- Uvigerina132 sites
- Planulina122 sites
- Cibicidoides112 sites
- Quinqueloculina102 sites
- Sigmoilopsis93 sites
- Dentalina86 sites
- Melonis77 sites
- Laticarinina74 sites
- Globocassidulina72 sites
- Lenticulina70 sites
- Gyroidinoides68 sites
- Hoeglundina67 sites
- Pleurostomella67 sites
- Lagena64 sites
- Oridorsalis60 sites
- Bolivina59 sites
- Fissurina58 sites
- Chilostomella56 sites
- Eggerella51 sites
- Brizalina50 sites
- Bolivinita49 sites
- Stilostomella41 sites
- Bulimina marginata40 sites
- Bulimina39 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 985 sites for Pyrgo, and this reads 240 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
119 references- Site U1337106
- Sedimentary facies and depositional environments of the Oligocene–early Miocene marine Qom Formation, Central Iran Back-Arc Basin, Iran (northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway)47
- Site U148247
- Site U135242
- Frontal prism Site U141240
- Sites U1428 and U142935
- Site U148531
- Input Site U141430
- Site U148328
- A study of biostratigraphy of Sinjar Formation in selected sections from northern Iraq28
- Site U133527
- Site U148426
Each of the 1,128 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. 107 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 content3
Picture of Pyrgo
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pyrgo sp. · l-cb
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- BelangerForamLab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itMiliolidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Defrance 1824