Pterinea prolifica
No picture of Pterinea prolifica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pterinea prolifica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PterineaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterinea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterinea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterinea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pterinea prolifica on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Vauréal Formation · Anticosti Group1
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The named rock units Pterinea prolifica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pterinea prolifica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pterinea prolifica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Anazyga recurvirostra1 site
- Catazyga anticostiensis1 site
- Costatulites richmondensis1 site
- Dinorthis (Pionorthis) carletona1 site
- Hypsiptycha janea1 site
- Ischyrinia winchelli1 site
- Megamyonia nitens1 site
- Onniella tricapitata1 site
- Plectambonites sericeus1 site
- Rhytimya emma1 site
- Tetraphalerella hecuba1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pterinea prolifica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 Pterinea prolifica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pterinea prolifica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pterinea prolifica 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.
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What may have been alongside itPterinea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1866