Ptychoparella

Ptychoparella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychopariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 78 of 78 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences537–535 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 4 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 4 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 4 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 6 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 12 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 13 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 13 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 4 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 4 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 4 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 4 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 4 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 2 occurrences509.7 Mya – 504.5 Mya539.6 Mya496.2 Mya

78 occurrences of Ptychoparella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

78 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

20 formations

Emigrant — 37.72°N, 117.44°WEmigrant — 37.71°N, 117.45°WEmigrant — 37.63°N, 117.25°WEmigrant — 37.55°N, 117.28°WEmigrant — 37.35°N, 117.83°WEmigrant — 37.79°N, 117.44°WPioche Shale — 37.89°N, 114.58°WPioche Shale — 37.92°N, 114.45°WPioche Shale — 37.90°N, 114.41°WPioche Shale — 37.76°N, 114.55°WPioche Shale — 40.00°N, 115.00°WMonola — 37.01°N, 117.79°WMonola — 37.08°N, 117.86°WMonola — 36.94°N, 117.91°WWheeler — 39.52°N, 113.00°WKinzers — 40.44°N, 75.12°WKinzers — 40.05°N, 76.36°WKinzers — 39.96°N, 76.73°WParker Slate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WHenson Gletscher — 80.25°N, 62.50°WHenson Gletscher — 82.50°N, 36.33°WHenson Gletscher — 82.15°N, 42.42°WMount Whyte — 52.83°N, 119.25°WMount Whyte — 51.39°N, 116.43°WCarrara — 39.16°N, 119.83°WCarrara — 37.35°N, 116.13°WCarrara — 37.57°N, 115.76°WMt. Whyte — 51.42°N, 116.45°WSt. Piran Sandstone — 52.83°N, 119.25°WJialao — 26.35°N, 107.85°EHarkless — 37.36°N, 117.36°WXijiadian — 32.80°N, 111.45°ESekwi — 63.52°N, 128.68°WIlltyd — 65.09°N, 134.71°WBurgess Shale — 51.39°N, 116.43°WCadiz — 34.54°N, 115.47°WWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°WOgnensk — 50.35°N, 106.45°E

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

Ptychoparella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ptychoparella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Ptychoparella, 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

26 references

Each of the 78 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 Ptychoparella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ptychoparella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Poulson 1927