Ptychostylus inermis
No picture of Ptychostylus inermis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ptychostylus inermis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Ptychostylus inermis on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
8 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
- Lealt Shale Formation · Great Estuarine Group8
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The named rock units Ptychostylus inermis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptychostylus inermis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Ptychostylus inermis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Neritoma8 sites
- Valvata7 sites
- Praemytilus6 sites
- Unio6 sites
- Viviparus5 sites
- Fronalarvata sp.3 sites
- Limnocythere3 sites
- Botryococcus2 sites
- Concostracans sp.2 sites
- Darwinula2 sites
- Glyptocythere2 sites
- Neomiodon2 sites
- Placunopsis socialis2 sites
- Tancredia2 sites
- ? Neopolygrapta sp.1 site
- Acanthocythere1 site
- Acrodus1 site
- Dendrostracus sp.1 site
- Euestheria1 site
- Hybodus1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Micrhystridium1 site
- Plesiosauria1 site
- Progonocythere1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ptychostylus inermis, 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 referenceEach of the 8 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 Ptychostylus inermis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ptychostylus inermis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Ptychostylus inermis 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 itFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.