Pterotheca expansa

Pterotheca expansa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterothecaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Pterothecidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterothecidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pterothecidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 900 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 13 of 13 occurrencesOrdovician472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458.2 Mya – 457.3 Mya471.8 Mya449.1 Mya

13 occurrences of Pterotheca expansa 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

13 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

8 formations

Chaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.41°N, 75.73°WChaumont — 45.43°N, 75.53°WLexington Limestone — 37.64°N, 84.66°WLexington Limestone — 37.77°N, 84.61°WChaumont — 43.23°N, 75.07°WTyrone Limestone — 37.83°N, 84.55°WBobcaygeon — 45.88°N, 76.93°WLowville — 45.45°N, 75.59°WDecorah — 39.12°N, 90.97°WMcGregor — 40.78°N, 87.39°W

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

Pterotheca expansa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pterotheca expansa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

257 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pterotheca expansa, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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. 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 Pterotheca expansa

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pterotheca expansa 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 itPterotheca through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Emmons 1842)