Daughter taxa (time control age-window is: 0-800Ma)![]() | Granddaughter taxa | ||||
| Pterocanium audax neptune records: 958 | |||||
| Pterocanium auritum neptune records: 6 | |||||
| Pterocanium contiguum neptune records: 4 | |||||
| Pterocanium gigas neptune records: 5 | |||||
| Pterocanium grandiporus neptune records: 11 | |||||
| Pterocanium korotnevi neptune records: 157 | |||||
| Pterocanium orcinum neptune records: | |||||
| Pterocanium praetextum neptune records: 47 | |||||
| Pterocanium prismatium neptune records: 526 | |||||
| Pterocanium procerum neptune records: 6 | |||||
| Pterocanium satelles neptune records: | |||||
| Pterocanium trilobum neptune records: 179 | |||||
| Pterocanium sp. neptune records: 126 | |||||
Catalog entries: Pterocanium
Original description: Apertura testae duplex opposita. Testa articulata, stricturis duabus aut pluribus. Corporis utroque fine coarctato. Appendicibus mediis in articulo penultimo alata. Spinosis decurrentibus.
Translated description: Aperture of the test double, opposite. Test segmented, with two or more strictures. Body narrowing at each end. With lateral wing-like appendages in the penultimate segment. Spines decurrent. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): Extant. Data source: Total of ranges of the species in this database
First occurrence (base): within Paleogene Period (23.03-66.04Ma, base in Danian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of species in this database
Plot of occurrence data:
Ehrenberg, C. G. (1847). Uber die mikroskopischen kieselschaligen Polycystinen als machtige Gebirgsmasse von Barbados und uber das Verhaltniss der aus mehr als 300 neuen Arten bestehenden ganz eigenthumlichen Formengruppe jener Felsmasse zu den jetzt lebenden Tieren und zur. Bericht uber die zu Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1847: 41-60. gs References:

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