Ptenoglossa

The Ptenoglossa is an informal taxonomic group of sea snails. This group was considered paraphyletic or polyphyletic by Ponder and Lindberg (1997) in their classification of gastropod molluscs.

Ptenoglossa

Rez242 · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GastropodaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 245 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 67 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 15 of 67 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 67 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 67 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 9 of 67 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 67 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 67 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 67 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 67 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 67 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 67 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 67 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 67 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 67 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 7 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 9 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 3 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence193–185 Mya — about 7 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 9 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences245.19 Mya129 ka252 Mya0 Mya

67 occurrences of Ptenoglossa on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

67 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

23 formations

Trochitenkalk — 51.66°N, 9.06°ETrochitenkalk — 49.28°N, 8.70°EAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°EMartin Bridge Limestone — 46.33°N, 116.73°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 45.12°N, 116.77°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WChenque — 45.87°S, 67.47°WNavidad — 44.65°S, 74.58°WMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.58°N, 7.49°EAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°EAmaltheenton — 49.55°N, 11.13°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°EBundera Calcarenite — 21.89°S, 114.02°EBreno — 45.95°N, 10.05°ESan Julián — 47.13°S, 66.05°WGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°Wbrachiopod-limestone — 45.70°N, 11.22°EWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°EArietenkalk — 48.73°N, 9.10°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EWadi Thamit — 28.25°N, 18.50°ERaibl — 46.51°N, 11.58°ECarmen Silva — 53.72°S, 67.83°WKapp Toscana — 74.42°N, 19.16°ESepultura — 28.55°N, 114.09°W

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The named rock units Ptenoglossa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptenoglossa and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Ptenoglossa and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,374 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Ptenoglossa, 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

35 references

Each of the 67 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. 23 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 Ptenoglossa

Credit
Rez242
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ptenoglossa was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1853)