Ptychopleurella multicostata
No picture of Ptychopleurella multicostata 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 multicostata, 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 5.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ptychopleurella multicostata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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 Ptychopleurella multicostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptychopleurella multicostata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Ptychopleurella multicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Craniops1 site
- Dicoelosia alticavata1 site
- Dolerorthis psygma1 site
- Hesperorthis davidsoni1 site
- Hesperorthis onniensis1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Linoporella punctata1 site
- Mendacella1 site
- Mendacella lata1 site
- Mendacella phiala1 site
- Mendacella uberis1 site
- Orbiculoidea forbesii1 site
- Parmorthis visbyensis pygmaea1 site
- Philhedra athenae1 site
- Platystrophia1 site
- Schizoramma valentica1 site
- Skenidioides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ptychopleurella multicostata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 Ptychopleurella multicostata 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 multicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptychopleurella multicostata 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 SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittard and Barker 1950