Pterineidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MalleidinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 453 million years on record.
The record covers at least 473.8 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
2,103 occurrences of Pterineidae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2,103 occurrences- Ordovician11%
- Silurian15%
- Devonian52%
- Carboniferous10%
- Permian11%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
- Mioceneunder 1%
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
443 formations
- Geneseo Formation · Genesee Group110
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group80
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group74
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group69
- Chemung Formation69
- Silica Formation45
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The named rock units Pterineidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 419 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 210 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pterineidae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Pterineidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
1,897 taxa- Actinopteria86 sites
- Crinoidea60 sites
- Pterinea58 sites
- Nuculites50 sites
- Camarotoechia42 sites
- Lingula38 sites
- Modiolopsis34 sites
- Tentaculites32 sites
- Cornulites31 sites
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)31 sites
- Ctenodonta30 sites
- Leptaena29 sites
- Atrypa28 sites
- Leptodesma28 sites
- Paraparchites28 sites
- Schizophoria28 sites
- Palaeoneilo27 sites
- Bivalvia26 sites
- Orbiculoidea26 sites
- Ambonychia25 sites
- Chonetes25 sites
- Craniops25 sites
- Hallopora25 sites
- Calymene23 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,528 sites for Pterineidae, and this reads 240 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
365 references- Using GIS to unlock the interactions between biogeography, environment, and evolution in middle and Late Devonian brachiopods and bivalves166
- Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA129
- Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology87
- Quantitative community analysis: Recurrent group and cluster techniques applied to the fauna of the Upper Devonian Sonyea Group, New York71
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York65
- Permskaya sistema Pribaltiki (fauna i stratigrafiya). Permian deposits of the Baltic region (stratigraphy and fauna)63
- Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected56
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis49
- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation45
- Quantitative Analysis of Paleocommunities in the Lower Part of the Hamilton Group near Cazenovia, New York41
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York34
- The paleoecology of a Lower Carboniferous marine transgression33
Each of the 2,103 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. 353 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Pterineidae
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pterineidae 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 itMalleidina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1877