Pteria sturi

No picture of Pteria sturi 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 Pteria sturi, 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 least 7.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 10 of 19 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 9 of 19 occurrencesLate Triassic248–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–243 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–233 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244.4 Mya237 Mya247.5 Mya226.8 Mya

19 occurrences of Pteria sturi on record, most of them in the Middle 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

19 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

7 formations

Na Khuat — 21.80°N, 106.79°EQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.52°N, 12.13°ERio del Lago — 46.43°N, 13.57°ETor — 46.43°N, 13.57°ELunzer — 47.98°N, 15.73°ECaerace — 45.05°N, 29.06°E

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The named rock units Pteria sturi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pteria sturi and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Pteria sturi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

285 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Pteria sturi, 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

10 references

Each of the 19 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

Media content0

No picture of Pteria sturi 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 Pteria sturi, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bittner 1895)