Ptychopleurella decretoria

No picture of Ptychopleurella decretoria 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 Ptychopleurella decretoria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychopleurellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 10 of 10 occurrencesOrdovician452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452.8 Mya448.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Ptychopleurella decretoria 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

10 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

5 formations

Vandon Limestone — 33.63°S, 148.78°EVandon Limestone — 33.55°S, 148.78°EVandon Limestone — 33.63°S, 149.11°EQuondong Limestone — 33.92°S, 148.20°EQuondong Limestone — 33.34°S, 148.84°ERegans Creek Limestone — 33.50°S, 148.88°EBelubula — 33.63°S, 148.78°EBelubula Limestone — 33.58°S, 148.90°E

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

Ptychopleurella decretoria and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ptychopleurella decretoria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ptychopleurella decretoria, 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 reference

Each of the 10 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 Ptychopleurella decretoria 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 Ptychopleurella decretoria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ptychopleurella decretoria 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 itPtychopleurella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Percival 1991