Ptychoglyptus alaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychoglyptusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ptychoglyptus alaensis 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
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The named rock units Ptychoglyptus alaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptychoglyptus alaensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ptychoglyptus alaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Acrosaccus shuleri1 site
- Anisopleurella tricostata1 site
- Anoptambonites grayae1 site
- Anoptambonites pulchra1 site
- Bimuria (Bimuria) gilbertella1 site
- Callositella cheeneetnukensis1 site
- Christiania aseptata1 site
- Craspedelia potterella1 site
- Cyclospira elegantula1 site
- Diorthelasma parvum1 site
- Doleroides panna1 site
- Duolobella sandiae1 site
- Gelidorthis perisiberiaensis1 site
- Laticrura pionodema1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena)1 site
- Leptaena (Septomena) alaskensis1 site
- Leptellina (Leptellina) occidentalis1 site
- Leptelloidea leptelloides1 site
- Oanduporella kuskokwimensis1 site
- Palaeowingella farewellensis1 site
- Perimecocoelia semicostata1 site
- Phragmorthis buttsi1 site
- Ptychoglyptus pauciradiatus1 site
- Ptychopleurella uniplicata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ptychoglyptus alaensis, 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 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
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No picture of Ptychoglyptus alaensis 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 Ptychoglyptus alaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptychoglyptus alaensis 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 itPtychoglyptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasmussen et al. 2012