Ptychopleurella porcia
No picture of Ptychopleurella porcia 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 porcia, 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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ptychopleurella porcia 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
3 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.
Ptychopleurella porcia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ptychopleurella porcia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Mimella borealis2 sites
- Multicostella platys2 sites
- Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger1 site
- Blastoidocrinus carchariaedens1 site
- Dalmanella1 site
- Deocrinus asperatus1 site
- Endoceras1 site
- Illaenus bayfieldi1 site
- Leperditia canadensis1 site
- Paleocystites tenuiradiatus1 site
- Phaenoporella glomerata1 site
- Rafinesquina alternata1 site
- Raphistoma stamineum1 site
- Rostricellula plena1 site
- Sphenotreta acutirostris1 site
- Spyroceras bilineatum1 site
- Stenopareia globosus1 site
- Thaleops ovata1 site
- Triendoceras montrealense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ptychopleurella porcia, 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
2 referencesEach of the 3 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 porcia 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 porcia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptychopleurella porcia 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. (Billings 1859)