Pterinea

Pterinea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterineidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 204 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451 Mya to 247 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Ordovician — about 221 of 364 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 117 of 364 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 22 of 364 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 364 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 364 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 364 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 364 occurrences463–455 Mya — about 3 occurrences455–448 Mya — about 150 occurrences448–440 Mya — about 78 occurrences440–432 Mya — about 40 occurrences432–425 Mya — about 45 occurrences425–417 Mya — about 25 occurrences417–410 Mya — about 12 occurrences410–402 Mya — about 1 occurrence402–395 Mya — about 1 occurrence395–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–380 Mya — about 2 occurrences380–372 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences372–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–290 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences252–245 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences245–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence451 Mya247 Mya463 Mya237 Mya

364 occurrences of Pterinea on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

364 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

116 formations

Waynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.06°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WWhitewater — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWhitewater — 39.49°N, 84.95°WWhitewater — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWhitewater — 39.80°N, 84.09°WWhitewater — 39.39°N, 83.93°WWhitewater — 38.93°N, 83.52°WWhitewater — 38.83°N, 83.51°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.43°N, 84.60°WCorryville — 39.17°N, 84.12°WCorryville — 39.30°N, 84.40°WCorryville — 38.68°N, 83.79°WSunset — 39.43°N, 84.60°WSunset — 39.33°N, 84.07°WSunset — 38.49°N, 83.76°WSunset — 39.34°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.37°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.54°N, 84.34°WSunset — 39.41°N, 84.50°WSunset — 39.13°N, 84.62°WSunset — 39.03°N, 83.85°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.21°N, 76.88°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WOregonia — 39.44°N, 84.98°WOregonia — 39.48°N, 84.07°WOregonia — 39.22°N, 84.08°WOregonia — 39.54°N, 84.34°WOregonia — 39.13°N, 84.60°WOregonia — 39.33°N, 84.07°WOregonia — 38.58°N, 83.70°WOregonia — 39.03°N, 83.85°WBull Fork — 39.39°N, 83.92°WBull Fork — 38.40°N, 83.72°WBull Fork — 38.60°N, 83.72°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.03°N, 84.51°WFairview — 39.30°N, 84.40°WFairview — 38.68°N, 83.79°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WWaynesville — 45.75°N, 81.60°WWaynesville — 45.50°N, 75.00°WWaynesville — 43.59°N, 79.72°WWaynesville — 45.90°N, 82.26°WWaynesville — 43.47°N, 79.69°WWaynesville — 45.91°N, 81.89°WWaynesville — 45.56°N, 73.18°WWaynesville — 43.70°N, 79.51°WWaynesville — 45.36°N, 75.35°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBellevue — 39.03°N, 84.51°WBellevue — 39.17°N, 84.12°WBellevue — 39.30°N, 84.40°WBellevue — 38.68°N, 83.79°WSodus — 43.20°N, 77.62°WSodus — 43.24°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 76.87°WSodus — 43.30°N, 76.68°WSodus — 43.28°N, 76.60°WSodus — 43.15°N, 75.56°WMartinsburg — 36.95°N, 81.08°WMartinsburg — 38.93°N, 78.20°WMartinsburg — 38.51°N, 78.63°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WMartinsburg — 37.38°N, 80.86°WMount Auburn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMount Auburn — 38.87°N, 83.91°WMount Auburn — 39.33°N, 84.07°WCalloway Creek — 37.46°N, 84.82°WCalloway Creek — 37.43°N, 84.85°WLorraine — 45.97°N, 81.93°WLorraine — 46.22°N, 72.62°WLorraine — 45.74°N, 81.61°WLorraine — 43.59°N, 79.72°WLorraine — 45.38°N, 75.60°WLorraine — 45.56°N, 73.18°WLiberty — 38.20°N, 85.57°WLiberty — 39.34°N, 84.95°WLiberty — 39.48°N, 84.05°WLiberty — 38.78°N, 85.37°WMiamitown — 39.12°N, 84.51°WMiamitown — 39.17°N, 84.58°WMiamitown — 39.03°N, 84.51°WMiamitown — 39.30°N, 84.40°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 77.21°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WIrondequoit — 43.26°N, 76.70°WSauquoit — 43.21°N, 75.46°WSauquoit — 43.13°N, 75.59°WSauquoit — 43.03°N, 75.28°WWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WWestfield Sandstone — 42.62°S, 146.37°EWestfield Sandstone — 42.67°S, 146.56°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EBills Creek — 45.85°N, 85.88°W

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The named rock units Pterinea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 92 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterinea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pterinea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,541 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 354 sites for Pterinea, 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

85 references

Each of the 364 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. 73 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 Pterinea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Goldfuss 1832