Pectenospira pectenata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PectenospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 448.8 Mya.
6 occurrences of Pectenospira pectenata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Pectenospira pectenata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pectenospira pectenata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pectenospira pectenata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Agetolites1 site
- Altaethyrella otarica1 site
- Anoptambonites subcarinata1 site
- Bellimurina1 site
- Eoplectodonta1 site
- Eopteria aiteneria1 site
- Eospirigerina1 site
- Epitomyonia glypha1 site
- Holtedahlina1 site
- Kellerella1 site
- Leangella1 site
- Nikolaispira1 site
- Parastrophina1 site
- Qilianotryma suspectum1 site
- Sinambonites sp.1 site
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) ampla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pectenospira pectenata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Anderken Formation, Kazakhstan: their ecology and systematics5
- A new Ordovician rostroconch mollusc from Kazakhstan1
Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pectenospira pectenata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Pectenospira pectenata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pectenospira pectenata 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 itPectenospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popov et al. 1999