Pterocerella

Pterocerella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterocerellinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 66 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 65 of 66 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 66 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 11 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 11 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 11 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 11 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya107.1 Mya65.2 Mya

66 occurrences of Pterocerella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

66 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

16 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.51°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.18°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 32.62°N, 89.53°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 33.86°N, 79.39°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WWolfe City — 30.27°N, 97.74°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WAzilé — 0.41°N, 9.50°EMexcala — 18.16°N, 98.94°W

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The named rock units Pterocerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pterocerella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Pterocerella, 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

15 references

Each of the 66 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. 3 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 Pterocerella

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pterocerella was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPterocerellinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1864