Ptarmiganoides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZacanthoididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Zacanthoididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 505.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 504.5 Mya.
32 occurrences of Ptarmiganoides on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
32 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
6 formations
- Pioche Shale Formation22
- Carrara Formation5
- Langston Formation2
- Monola Formation1
- Shuangyingshan Formation1
- Cathedral Formation1
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The named rock units Ptarmiganoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptarmiganoides and its relatives
CambrianWhere Ptarmiganoides and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Palmerara granosa6 sites
- Poliella leipalox6 sites
- Pagetia resseri5 sites
- Poliella germana5 sites
- Albertella highlandensis4 sites
- Albertella judithi4 sites
- Alokistocare alta4 sites
- Kootenia4 sites
- Mexicella mexicana4 sites
- Plagiura minor4 sites
- Chancia venusta3 sites
- Kootenia crassinucha3 sites
- Olenoides maladensis3 sites
- Pagetia clytia3 sites
- Poliella denticulata3 sites
- Volocephalina connexa3 sites
- Albertella eiloitys2 sites
- Albertella lata2 sites
- Albertellina aspinosa2 sites
- Albertelloides2 sites
- Albertelloides mischi2 sites
- Albertelloides rectimarginatus2 sites
- Macannaia maladensis2 sites
- Mexicaspis difuntosensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Ptarmiganoides, 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
7 references- Early Middle Cambrian Albertella biozone trilobites of the Pioche Shale, southeastern Nevada11
- Lower and early Middle Cambrian trilobites from the Pioche Shale, East-Central Nevada, U.S.A.11
- Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin5
- The Ptarmigania strata of the northwestern Wasatch Mountains2
- Upper lower Cambrian (provisional Cambrian Series 2) trilobites from northwestern Gansu Province, China1
- Early and Mid Cambrian Trilobites from the Outer-shelf Deposits of Nevada and California, USA1
- Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas of the Canadian Rocky Mountains1
Each of the 32 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
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No picture of Ptarmiganoides was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ptarmiganoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itZacanthoididae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasetti 1951