Pleurotomaria armata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleurotomariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Pleurotomaria
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pleurotomaria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pleurotomaria
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 168.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pleurotomaria armata on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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.
Pleurotomaria armata and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Pleurotomaria armata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Amphitrochus1 site
- Discohelix1 site
- Eucycloidea1 site
- Eucyclus1 site
- Sadkia richensis n. gen. n. sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pleurotomaria armata, 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- Middle Jurassic gastropods from the Kahlenberg section near Ringsheim/Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany)1
- Middle Jurassic Gastropods from the Central High Atlas, Morocco1
Each of the 2 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 content2
Picture of Pleurotomaria armata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPleurotomaria through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Münster 1844