Pseudoptera securiformis
No picture of Pseudoptera securiformis 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 Pseudoptera securiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudopteraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Pseudoptera securiformis 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
5 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pseudoptera securiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudoptera securiformis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudoptera securiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Flemingostrea cretacea5 sites
- Anomia preolmstedi3 sites
- Placenticeras benningi3 sites
- Anchura2 sites
- Cyprimeria2 sites
- Exogyra upatoiensis2 sites
- Legumen2 sites
- Legumen carolinense2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Camptonectes1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Caryocorbula1 site
- Caryocorbula georgiana1 site
- Caryocorbula veatchi1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Cucullaea (Idonearca)1 site
- Cymbophora ochilleana1 site
- Etea1 site
- Leptosolen1 site
- Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis1 site
- Pholadomya1 site
- Protarca obliqua1 site
- Serpula1 site
- Tellina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pseudoptera securiformis, 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 5 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 Pseudoptera securiformis 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 Pseudoptera securiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudoptera securiformis 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 itPseudoptera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1956