Pterotheca intermedia
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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 most 3.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 453.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pterotheca intermedia 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- McGregor Formation · Platteville Group1
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The named rock units Pterotheca intermedia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pterotheca intermedia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pterotheca intermedia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Clathrospira subconica1 site
- Eotomaria trochoides1 site
- Eunema helicteres1 site
- Holopea ampla1 site
- Hormotoma gracilis1 site
- Lesueurilla beloitensis1 site
- Liospira obtusa1 site
- Liospira vitruvia1 site
- Lophospira milleri1 site
- Lophospira perangulata1 site
- Lophospira serrulata1 site
- Lophospira ventricosa1 site
- Lytospira undulatus1 site
- Omospira alexandra1 site
- Ophiletina sublaxa1 site
- Phragmolites triangularis1 site
- Pterotheca expansa1 site
- Raphistomina modesta1 site
- Salpingostoma buelli1 site
- Tetranota wisconsinensis1 site
- Trochonema umbilicata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pterotheca intermedia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pterotheca intermedia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pterotheca intermedia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pterotheca intermedia 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 itPterotheca through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shrock and Raasch 1937