Pteriidae

Pteriidae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
Also called
pearl oysterPBDB
Sits inside
PterioideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 451 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 1394 occurrencesSilurian — about 12 of 1394 occurrencesDevonian — about 9 of 1394 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 1394 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 29 of 1394 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 118 of 1394 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 129 of 1394 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 225 of 1394 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 24 of 1394 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 74 of 1394 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 125 of 1394 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 28 of 1394 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 313 of 1394 occurrencesPaleocene — about 20 of 1394 occurrencesEocene — about 106 of 1394 occurrencesOligocene — about 49 of 1394 occurrencesMiocene — about 66 of 1394 occurrencesPliocene — about 19 of 1394 occurrencesPleistocene — about 36 of 1394 occurrences463–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–432 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences432–417 Mya — about 14 occurrences417–401 Mya — about 6 occurrences401–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence370–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–340 Mya — about 2 occurrences340–324 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences324–309 Mya — about 2 occurrences309–293 Mya — about 2 occurrences293–278 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences278–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–247 Mya — about 142 occurrences247–231 Mya — about 177 occurrences231–216 Mya — about 38 occurrences216–201 Mya — about 140 occurrences201–185 Mya — about 16 occurrences185–170 Mya — about 11 occurrences170–154 Mya — about 118 occurrences154–139 Mya — about 77 occurrences139–123 Mya — about 7 occurrences123–108 Mya — about 11 occurrences108–93 Mya — about 120 occurrences93–77 Mya — about 56 occurrences77–62 Mya — about 158 occurrences62–46 Mya — about 36 occurrences46–31 Mya — about 100 occurrences31–15 Mya — about 68 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 83 occurrences451.8 Mya11.7 ka463 Mya0 Mya

1,394 occurrences of Pteriidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

1,394 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

327 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°EQingyan — 26.35°N, 106.70°EKossen — 47.78°N, 13.80°EKossen — 47.66°N, 12.45°EKossen — 47.57°N, 11.77°EKossen — 47.75°N, 14.73°EKossen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EKossen — 47.55°N, 12.17°EKossen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EWoodbine — 31.95°N, 97.32°WWoodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 33.81°N, 96.83°WWoodbine — 33.76°N, 96.54°WWoodbine — 33.62°N, 96.61°WWoodbine — 32.84°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.51°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.73°N, 96.77°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.46°WWoodbine — 33.69°N, 96.35°WWoodbine — 33.67°N, 96.34°WWoodbine — 33.60°N, 96.37°WMoodys 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°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 35.97°N, 110.84°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 36.08°N, 111.07°WMancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WKoessen — 47.00°N, 13.00°EKoessen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EFeixianguan — 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°EAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WChari — 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 — 31.94°N, 86.11°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°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.60°N, 2.45°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°ELuning — 38.87°N, 117.62°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WWestbury — 51.17°N, 3.27°WWestbury — 51.93°N, 2.23°WWestbury — 51.24°N, 2.34°WWestbury — 51.55°N, 2.40°WWestbury — 51.82°N, 2.41°WWestbury — 54.26°N, 1.28°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WTropic Shale — 37.08°N, 111.65°WPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 43.31°N, 104.22°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°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°WAbu Qada — 28.65°N, 33.24°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 29.28°N, 34.72°EAbu Qada — 30.37°N, 34.45°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EWerfen — 46.65°N, 11.75°EWerfen — 46.42°N, 11.61°EWerfen — 46.46°N, 11.69°EWerfen — 46.61°N, 11.90°EFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°W

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The named rock units Pteriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 303 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 214 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pteriidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pteriidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,640 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,065 sites for Pteriidae, and this reads 240 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

352 references

Each of the 1,394 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. 340 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 Pteriidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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What may have been alongside itPterioidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1847