Pyktes
No picture of Pyktes 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 Pyktes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PugnellinaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
24 occurrences of Pyktes on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
24 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
6 formations
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group11
- Redding Formation · Pacheco Group6
- Toreva Formation2
- Ladd Formation2
- Deer Valley Formation1
- Chico Formation1
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The named rock units Pyktes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pyktes and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pyktes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
217 taxa- Glycymerita veatchii6 sites
- Callistalox fragilis5 sites
- Turritella chaneyi5 sites
- Anomia4 sites
- Calva (Calva) varians4 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii4 sites
- Septifer4 sites
- Aguileria3 sites
- Clisocolus dubius3 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca)3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica3 sites
- Meekia (Meekia) sella3 sites
- Perissitys cretacea3 sites
- Plectocion curvirostris3 sites
- Polinices3 sites
- Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte)3 sites
- Adelodonax altus2 sites
- Ampullina oviformis2 sites
- Atira inornata2 sites
- Baculites2 sites
- Biplica obliqua2 sites
- Bulbificopsis garza2 sites
- Callistalox arata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Pyktes, 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
6 references- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results8
- Cretaceous Aporrhaidae from California: Aporrhainae and Arrhoginae8
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast4
- Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona2
- New Cretaceous cerithiform gastropods from the Pacific Slope of North America1
- Additions to Late Cretaceous shallow-marine Gastropods from California1
Each of the 24 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. 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 content0
No picture of Pyktes 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 Pyktes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pyktes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPugnellinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popenoe 1983