Pteroplecta sulcata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PteroplectaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Pteroplecta sulcata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
9 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
- Senja Formation · Namlang Group9
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The named rock units Pteroplecta sulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pteroplecta sulcata and its relatives
PermianWhere Pteroplecta sulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Lazarevonia arcuata8 sites
- Platycancrinella grandauris7 sites
- Cleiothyridina pijaensis6 sites
- Sulcirugaria subquadrata6 sites
- Callispirina manangensis5 sites
- Spiriferella rajah5 sites
- Arcullina oblata4 sites
- Betaneospirifer neomarcoui4 sites
- Cleiothyridina echidniformis4 sites
- Fostericoncha gigantea4 sites
- Hoskingia prolonga4 sites
- Reticulariina montana4 sites
- Echinalosia magnispina3 sites
- Etheripecten3 sites
- Sulcirugaria transversa3 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis2 sites
- Linoproductus2 sites
- Spirovallum2 sites
- Squamularia umbonalis2 sites
- Streblopteria2 sites
- Strophalosia gerardi2 sites
- Ambikella himalayanicus1 site
- Coledium1 site
- Martiniopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pteroplecta sulcata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pteroplecta sulcata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pteroplecta sulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pteroplecta sulcata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itPteroplecta through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 1983