Ptychatractus interruptus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychatractusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
6 occurrences of Ptychatractus interruptus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
- London Clay Formation3
- Barton Clay Formation2
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group1
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The named rock units Ptychatractus interruptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptychatractus interruptus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ptychatractus interruptus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
639 taxa- Cultellus affinis4 sites
- Gemmula4 sites
- Pitar (Calpitaria) sulcatarius4 sites
- Priscoficus smithi4 sites
- Surculites errans4 sites
- Teredo4 sites
- Tibia (Eotibia) sublucida4 sites
- Turricula4 sites
- Acteon3 sites
- Alvania3 sites
- Aporrhais sowerbii3 sites
- Asthenotoma pupa3 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina)3 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina) nodosa3 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum3 sites
- Clavilithes3 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina3 sites
- Conomitra3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica3 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
- Cryptoconus3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Ditrupa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ptychatractus interruptus, 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
5 references- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire2
- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire1
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex1
- The London Clay of Earldoms Clay Pit, Whiteparish, Wiltshire1
- The London Clay and associated deposits exposed in Chichester Harbour (West Sussex)1
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Ptychatractus interruptus 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 Ptychatractus interruptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptychatractus interruptus 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 itPtychatractus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pilkington 1804)