Ptenidium
Uncredited · 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
- PtenidiiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 129 ka.
6 occurrences of Ptenidium on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ptenidium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptenidium and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ptenidium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
202 taxa- Aleocharinae4 sites
- Aphodius4 sites
- Bagous4 sites
- Bryaxis4 sites
- Carpelimus4 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus4 sites
- Helodidae4 sites
- Hydraena4 sites
- Ochthebius minimus4 sites
- Pelochares versicolor4 sites
- Rhamphus pulicarius4 sites
- Rhynchaenus quercus4 sites
- Stenus4 sites
- Valgus hemipterus4 sites
- Anthonomus3 sites
- Apion3 sites
- Aspidiphorus orbiculatus3 sites
- Bembidion (Diplocampa) assimile3 sites
- Bembidion (Trepanes) articulatum3 sites
- Coelostoma orbiculare3 sites
- Corticarina3 sites
- Donacia semicuprea3 sites
- Elmis aenea3 sites
- Esolus parallelepipedus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ptenidium, 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- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK4
- Ptenidium kishenehnicum (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae), a New Fossil Described from the Kishenehn Oil Shales, with a Checklist of Previously Known Fossil Ptiliids2
Each of the 6 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
Media content1
Picture of Ptenidium
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Ptenidium 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 itPtenidiini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Erichson 1845