Ptychopteria

Ptychopteria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterineidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterineidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterineidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterineidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 111 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Silurian — about 6 of 96 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 87 of 96 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 96 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 96 occurrences436–431 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences431–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–421 Mya — about 3 occurrences416–412 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences412–407 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences407–402 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences402–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–392 Mya — about 5 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 12 occurrences387–383 Mya — about 29 occurrences383–378 Mya — about 13 occurrences378–373 Mya — about 13 occurrences373–368 Mya — about 4 occurrences368–363 Mya — about 3 occurrences363–358 Mya — about 5 occurrences334–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–325 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences305–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426.7 Mya315.2 Mya436 Mya291 Mya

96 occurrences of Ptychopteria on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

96 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

32 formations

Chemung — 41.96°N, 76.52°WChemung — 42.92°N, 76.46°WChemung — 42.10°N, 76.53°WChemung — 42.22°N, 76.37°WChemung — 42.67°N, 76.40°WChemung — 42.16°N, 76.31°WChemung — 42.23°N, 75.53°WChemung — 42.25°N, 76.50°WChemung — 43.46°N, 76.51°WChemung — 42.22°N, 75.92°WChemung — 42.67°N, 76.92°WChemung — 42.75°N, 79.48°WChemung — 41.85°N, 79.16°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.35°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.22°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 76.25°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 75.99°WLudlowville — 42.74°N, 75.54°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 76.13°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.99°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.09°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.55°WErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EErtang — 23.87°N, 109.77°EErtang — 24.03°N, 109.93°EWeatherall — 73.50°N, 112.00°WPilton Shales — 51.08°N, 4.05°WLime Creek — 43.52°N, 92.95°WLime Creek — 43.05°N, 92.97°WLime Creek — 43.05°N, 92.96°WNorway Point — 45.93°N, 83.50°WNorway Point — 45.33°N, 83.65°WNorway Point — 45.13°N, 83.10°WLeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WChagrin Shale — 41.70°N, 81.15°WChagrin Shale — 41.72°N, 81.25°WCano del Oeste — 10.50°N, 72.50°WBaggy Sandstones — 51.12°N, 4.00°WTriangle — 42.23°N, 75.53°WTriangle — 42.35°N, 75.89°WMahantango — 39.93°N, 78.67°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 76.92°WIthaca — 42.74°N, 78.13°WIthaca — 42.86°N, 78.28°WWhitcliffe Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WKnoppenbiessen — 50.97°N, 7.17°EUkalunda — 22.00°S, 143.00°EQiziqiao — 27.83°N, 111.58°ETahara — 28.08°N, 13.00°EBeaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°ERío del Peñón — 28.60°S, 68.74°WMurray Creek — 42.12°S, 171.85°E

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The named rock units Ptychopteria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptychopteria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Ptychopteria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

560 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Ptychopteria, 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

27 references

Each of the 96 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. 15 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 Ptychopteria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ptychopteria 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 itPterineidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1883