Ptygmatis

Ptygmatis

Armin Reindl · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterostrophiaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 6 of 27 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 13 of 27 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 27 occurrencesLate Cretaceous170–167 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 3 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 3 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–91 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165.3 Mya93.9 Mya170 Mya88 Mya

27 occurrences of Ptygmatis on record, most of them in the Late 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

27 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

8 formations

Tuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.37°N, 45.50°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EZirc Limestone — 47.27°N, 17.87°EZirc Limestone — 47.08°N, 17.57°EErnstbrunn — 48.55°N, 16.35°EOsmington Oolite — 50.60°N, 2.45°WTuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°EGrès inférieurs — 39.95°N, 9.42°WReuchenette — 47.40°N, 7.03°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Ptygmatis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptygmatis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ptygmatis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

478 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Ptygmatis, 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

16 references

Each of the 27 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. 4 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 Ptygmatis

Credit
Armin Reindl
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ptygmatis 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHeterostrophia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.