Pentlandina tartana
No picture of Pentlandina tartana 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 Pentlandina tartana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PentlandinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pentlandina tartana on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
4 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Pentlandina tartana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pentlandina tartana and its relatives
SilurianWhere Pentlandina tartana and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Dicoelosia verneuiliana4 sites
- Acernaspis (Eskaspis) sufferta2 sites
- Craspedobolbina2 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus2 sites
- Cystoporata2 sites
- Echinodermata2 sites
- Encrinurus expansus2 sites
- Eoplectodonta penkillensis2 sites
- Eridotrypa2 sites
- Hecetastoma salteri2 sites
- Isorthis (Ovalella) mackenziei2 sites
- Lingula2 sites
- Nautiloidea2 sites
- Pentlandella2 sites
- Ptilodictya2 sites
- Rugosa2 sites
- Skenidioides lewisii2 sites
- Sphaerirhynchia2 sites
- Visbyella visbyensis2 sites
- Amphistrophia whittardi1 site
- Atrypa (Atrypa)1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Brachyprion (Erinostrophia) walmstedti1 site
- Camerella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pentlandina tartana, 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
2 references- Strophomenidae, Leptostrophiidae, Strophodontidae and Shaleriidae (Brachiopoda, Strophomenida) from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden2
- Upper Llandovery fossil associations in the Pentland HIlls, Scotland2
Each of the 4 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 Pentlandina tartana 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 Pentlandina tartana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pentlandina tartana 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 itPentlandina through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bancroft 1949)