Pseudoptera

Pseudoptera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BakevelliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 114 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 180.4 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 72 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 72 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 59 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 72 occurrences183–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–174 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences133–128 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 4 occurrences119–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–96 Mya — about 19 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 12 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 6 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 12 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 7 occurrences59–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170.9 Mya56 Mya183 Mya45 Mya

72 occurrences of Pseudoptera on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

72 occurrences

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

26 formations

Woodbine — 31.95°N, 97.32°WWoodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.68°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 33.62°N, 96.61°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 31.70°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.05°N, 97.23°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 33.60°N, 96.37°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.97°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.22°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WEutaw — 32.46°N, 84.99°WEutaw — 32.39°N, 84.84°WEutaw — 32.35°N, 85.36°WEutaw — 32.34°N, 85.02°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EMikasa Sandstone — 43.25°N, 141.95°EFarin Doutchi — 15.41°N, 5.73°EFarin Doutchi — 15.26°N, 5.59°EBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WMiraflores — 18.77°S, 66.10°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WBraunjura alpha & Braunjura beta — 48.90°N, 7.67°EDakota — 35.73°N, 110.83°WConor — 5.48°S, 78.52°WAbeih — 33.73°N, 35.53°EReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WPierre Shale — 45.14°N, 100.88°WAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.52°EPanoche — 37.38°N, 121.32°WOwl Creek — 34.76°N, 88.93°W

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The named rock units Pseudoptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudoptera and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pseudoptera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,097 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Pseudoptera, 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

27 references

Each of the 72 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. 15 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 content1

Picture of Pseudoptera

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBakevelliidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1873)