Pteria spedeni

No picture of Pteria spedeni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pteria spedeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PteriaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteria
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteria
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pteria
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Pteriidae

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.5 Mya and 217 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228 Mya216.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Pteria spedeni on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

3 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.

Pteria spedeni and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pteria spedeni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pteria spedeni, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Pteria spedeni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pteria spedeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pteria spedeni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPteria through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 1960