Pteronites

Pteronites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 172 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 42 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 42 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 34 of 42 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 42 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 42 occurrences437–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–424 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences374–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–361 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–355 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences355–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–336 Mya — about 1 occurrence336–330 Mya — about 2 occurrences330–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–311 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences311–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–298 Mya — about 27 occurrences298–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–286 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences286–280 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences280–273 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence426.7 Mya254.14 Mya437 Mya248 Mya

42 occurrences of Pteronites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

42 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

17 formations

Graham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.26°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WElephant Canyon — 38.50°N, 109.67°WNam — 64.34°N, 161.88°ERedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WFentou — 32.05°N, 119.05°EPilton Shales — 51.08°N, 4.05°WHonaker Trail — 38.58°N, 109.58°WBluff Creek — 31.58°N, 99.23°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WMiddle Limestone Va Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMunugudzhak — 63.84°N, 159.89°EHajier — 37.68°N, 98.65°ELekvorkuta — 66.04°N, 60.22°EFour Corners — 37.30°N, 83.20°WCaddo Creek — 33.25°N, 98.09°WBaird — 40.75°N, 122.30°W

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The named rock units Pteronites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pteronites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pteronites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

593 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Pteronites, 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

19 references

Each of the 42 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. 7 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 Pteronites

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No 3D scan of Pteronites 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.

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What may have been alongside itPterineidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McCoy 1842