Pyrgoma
No picture of Pyrgoma 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 Pyrgoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PyrgomatinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Pyrgoma on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Pyrgoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pyrgoma and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pyrgoma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Balanus2 sites
- Agassizia porifera1 site
- Balanus niveus1 site
- Bothrocorbula wilcoxii1 site
- Cellepora1 site
- Chelonibia1 site
- Chelonibia testudinaria1 site
- Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Chondrocidaris1 site
- Clypeaster1 site
- Columbella rusticoides1 site
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius1 site
- Echinometra lucunter1 site
- Encope aberrans1 site
- Ilyanassa1 site
- Liochlamys1 site
- Lopha cristagalli1 site
- Lytechinus variegatus1 site
- Malea1 site
- Medaeus mbalavuensis1 site
- Menippe oceanica1 site
- Metalia1 site
- Monoplex krebsii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pyrgoma, 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- Eocene Balanidae of Florida, Including a New Genus and Species with a Unique Plan of "Turtle-Barnacle" Organization2
- The sirenian Metaxytherium (Mammalia: Dugongidae) in the Badenian (Middle Miocene) of Central Europe1
- Geology of Lau, Fiji1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Pyrgoma 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 Pyrgoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pyrgoma 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 itPyrgomatinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1817