Pteroperna

Pteroperna

via iDigBio · CC BY-NC-ND · via iDigBio. 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
Sits inside
PteriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pteriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Pteriidae

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 4 of 103 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 103 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 33 of 103 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 60 of 103 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 103 occurrences229–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences209–206 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences206–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–200 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences194–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–188 Mya — about 1 occurrence188–185 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–168 Mya — about 5 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 21 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 5 occurrences162–159 Mya — about 4 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 9 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 19 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 15 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 8 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 5 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205.7 Mya149.2 Mya229 Mya141 Mya

103 occurrences of Pteroperna on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

103 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

29 formations

Alcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EOolithe miliaire — 49.71°N, 4.60°EOolithe miliaire — 49.78°N, 4.40°EOolithe miliaire — 49.68°N, 4.66°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.41°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.50°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°EOsmington Oolite — 51.75°N, 1.25°WOsmington Oolite — 50.63°N, 2.37°WArgile de Villerville — 49.37°N, 0.08°ENakanosawa — 37.83°N, 140.92°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WCalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°EDorgali — 39.91°N, 9.41°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.32°N, 0.03°EUpper Calcareous Grit — 53.98°N, 1.53°WCalcaire de Hennequeville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EAberhan Sinemur — 33.47°S, 70.75°WCoral Rag — 51.77°N, 1.25°WPuchenque — 35.43°S, 69.92°WHampen Marly — 51.75°N, 1.17°WWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WForest Marble — 51.00°N, 1.00°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Pteroperna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pteroperna and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pteroperna and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

830 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Pteroperna, 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

29 references

Each of the 103 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. 17 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 Pteroperna

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Pteroperna 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPteriidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lycett 1850)