Pteria

Pteria is a genus of molluscs in the family Pteriidae. The species of the genus are sometimes referred to as wing-oysters or winged oysters.

Pteria

Liné1 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
PteriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Pteriidae

Time the record covers

At least 412 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 0 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 755 occurrencesDevonian — about 9 of 755 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 755 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 28 of 755 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 89 of 755 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 97 of 755 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 75 of 755 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 12 of 755 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 31 of 755 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 61 of 755 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 755 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 92 of 755 occurrencesPaleocene — about 11 of 755 occurrencesEocene — about 101 of 755 occurrencesOligocene — about 49 of 755 occurrencesMiocene — about 56 of 755 occurrencesPliocene — about 13 of 755 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 755 occurrences428–414 Mya — about 3 occurrences414–399 Mya — about 5 occurrences399–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence371–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence314–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–257 Mya — about 5 occurrences257–243 Mya — about 166 occurrences243–228 Mya — about 88 occurrences228–214 Mya — about 13 occurrences214–200 Mya — about 19 occurrences200–185 Mya — about 6 occurrences185–171 Mya — about 4 occurrences171–157 Mya — about 46 occurrences157–143 Mya — about 44 occurrences143–128 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–86 Mya — about 9 occurrences86–71 Mya — about 25 occurrences71–57 Mya — about 68 occurrences57–43 Mya — about 41 occurrences43–29 Mya — about 100 occurrences29–14 Mya — about 48 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 49 occurrences413.02 Mya129 ka428 Mya0 Mya

755 occurrences of Pteria on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

755 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

204 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°EQingyan — 26.35°N, 106.70°EMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.14°N, 87.94°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.35°N, 93.57°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WFeixianguan — 28.10°N, 105.04°EFeixianguan — 29.91°N, 106.52°EFeixianguan — 30.13°N, 106.45°EFeixianguan — 28.44°N, 104.72°EFeixianguan — 32.58°N, 105.86°EFeixianguan — 28.01°N, 104.68°EFeixianguan — 26.02°N, 104.67°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EKayitou — 25.66°N, 104.42°EKayitou — 26.73°N, 104.44°EKayitou — 26.48°N, 104.39°EKayitou — 27.23°N, 104.40°EProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WCassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.10°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ETrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.60°N, 2.45°WAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WDinwoody — 43.57°N, 110.73°WDinwoody — 42.67°N, 108.68°WDinwoody — 43.64°N, 110.57°WDinwoody — 44.56°N, 112.71°WDinwoody — 44.68°N, 112.79°WDinwoody — 42.23°N, 111.43°WVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.65°N, 117.81°WVaqueros — 36.20°N, 121.32°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 33.94°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 34.35°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.45°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.42°N, 119.27°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 31.32°N, 95.46°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WSobral — 39.10°N, 9.27°WNa Khuat — 21.80°N, 106.79°EWerfen — 46.65°N, 11.75°EWerfen — 46.42°N, 11.61°EMint Spring — 30.98°N, 88.73°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WMint Spring — 31.66°N, 88.66°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 31.85°N, 94.98°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 31.86°N, 94.94°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.51°N, 87.89°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.32°WDaye — 30.49°N, 107.00°EDaye — 30.17°N, 109.00°ESchlern — 46.51°N, 11.57°EFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°ELisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°W

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The named rock units Pteria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 180 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 90 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pteria and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pteria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,521 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 592 sites for Pteria, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

211 references

Each of the 755 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. 199 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 content2

Picture of Pteria

Credit
Liné1
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pteria linguiformis · YPM:IP:YPM IP 006835

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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What may have been alongside itPteriidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scopoli 1777