Pseudoptera subtortuosa
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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 least 98 million years on record.
The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 180.4 Mya to 66 Mya.
7 occurrences of Pseudoptera subtortuosa 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
- Fox Hills Formation2
- Braunjura alpha & Braunjura beta Formation · Braunjura Group1
- Pierre Shale Formation · Montana Group1
- Bearpaw Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudoptera subtortuosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudoptera subtortuosa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudoptera subtortuosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
171 taxa- Cymbophora warrenana5 sites
- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana5 sites
- Crenella elegantula4 sites
- Cucullaea nebrascensis4 sites
- Cuspidaria ventricosa4 sites
- Glossus moreauensis4 sites
- Goniomya americana4 sites
- Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) sulcatinus4 sites
- Malletia evansi4 sites
- Modiolus galpinianus4 sites
- Phelopteria linguaeformis4 sites
- Protocardia4 sites
- Protocardia subquadrata4 sites
- Tellinimera scitula4 sites
- Anomia gryphorhyncha3 sites
- Discoscaphites conradi3 sites
- Discoscaphites gulosus3 sites
- Dosiniopsis deweyi3 sites
- Hoploscaphites nicolletii3 sites
- Limopsis striatopunctatus3 sites
- Modiolus meeki3 sites
- Nucula cancellata3 sites
- Nucula planomarginata3 sites
- Nuculana (Jupiteria) scitula3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pseudoptera subtortuosa, 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
4 references- Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming3
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
- USGS Locality Compendium1
- Die Gundershoffener Klamm1
Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pseudoptera subtortuosa 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 subtortuosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudoptera subtortuosa 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.
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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. (Meek and Hayden 1856)