Ptilotodon wilsoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtilotodonPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Teiidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Teiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ptilotodon wilsoni on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Cloverly Formation2
- Antlers Formation · Trinity Group1
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The named rock units Ptilotodon wilsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptilotodon wilsoni and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ptilotodon wilsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Amiidae3 sites
- Anura3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Caudata3 sites
- Deinonychus antirrhopus3 sites
- Goniopholididae3 sites
- Mesoeucrocodylia3 sites
- Multituberculata3 sites
- Ornithischia3 sites
- Osteichthyes3 sites
- Paramacellodidae3 sites
- Pholidosauridae3 sites
- Teiidae3 sites
- Testudines3 sites
- Theropoda3 sites
- Actinopterygii2 sites
- Albanerpeton ektopistikon2 sites
- Alticonodontinae2 sites
- Amiiformes2 sites
- Amphibia2 sites
- Ankylosauria2 sites
- Bernissartiidae2 sites
- Ceratodus2 sites
- Ceratodus frazieri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ptilotodon wilsoni, 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
2 references- Vertebrate paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), I: faunal composition, biogeographic relationships, and sampling2
- Lizards from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Antlers and Clovery formations1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ptilotodon wilsoni 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 Ptilotodon wilsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptilotodon wilsoni 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 itPtilotodon through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nydam and Cifelli 2002