Pterioida

The Pteriida are an order of large and medium-sized marine bivalve mollusks. It includes five families, among them the Pteriidae.

Pterioida

Original uploader was Alan p at it.wikipedia · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
PteriomorphiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 422 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 296 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 296 occurrencesDevonian — about 28 of 296 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 10 of 296 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 296 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 296 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 28 of 296 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 16 of 296 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 29 of 296 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 127 of 296 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 25 of 296 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 296 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 296 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 296 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 296 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 296 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 296 occurrences459–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–414 Mya — about 3 occurrences414–399 Mya — about 12 occurrences399–384 Mya — about 11 occurrences384–369 Mya — about 2 occurrences369–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–338 Mya — about 2 occurrences338–323 Mya — about 4 occurrences323–308 Mya — about 3 occurrences308–293 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–248 Mya — about 6 occurrences248–233 Mya — about 36 occurrences233–218 Mya — about 6 occurrences218–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–188 Mya — about 21 occurrences188–173 Mya — about 9 occurrences173–158 Mya — about 135 occurrences158–143 Mya — about 16 occurrences143–128 Mya — about 5 occurrences128–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–83 Mya — about 7 occurrences83–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–7.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences445.5 Mya23.04 Mya459 Mya7 Mya

296 occurrences of Pterioida on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

296 occurrences

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

60 formations

Chari — 23.67°N, 69.00°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WBlue Lias — 50.00°N, 2.00°WBlue Lias — 51.00°N, 3.00°WJhurio — 23.50°N, 70.50°ECotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WTrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°ETrochitenkalk — 50.75°N, 8.50°ETrochitenkalk — 51.66°N, 9.06°ETrochitenkalk — 51.62°N, 9.12°ETrochitenkalk — 49.28°N, 8.70°ETrochitenkalk — 49.17°N, 10.02°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.65°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.10°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°EKarchowice — 50.00°N, 19.00°EMughanniyya — 32.18°N, 35.62°EMughanniyya — 32.18°N, 35.77°ESot de Chera — 41.47°N, 1.42°WSot de Chera — 41.25°N, 1.08°WQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°EHimalia Ridge — 71.00°S, 68.50°WFloyd Shale — 34.50°N, 85.50°WFloyd Shale — 34.67°N, 85.17°WFloyd Shale — 34.58°N, 85.25°WHamam — 32.20°N, 35.70°EHuai Tak — 18.64°N, 99.86°EHuai Tak — 18.73°N, 99.88°EWordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 74.04°N, 21.61°WWordie Creek — 73.99°N, 21.42°WLiminangcong — 11.96°N, 120.16°EKehalia — 30.71°N, 33.37°EKehalia — 30.71°N, 33.50°EWatahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.17°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.04°WBernbjerg — 74.50°N, 20.00°WMenbu — 28.08°N, 86.00°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EDolomia Principale — 45.75°N, 10.08°EDolomia Principale — 45.93°N, 9.57°EWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°E

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The named rock units Pterioida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterioida and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Pterioida and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,469 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 165 sites for Pterioida, 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

76 references

Each of the 296 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. 64 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 content2

Picture of Pterioida

Credit
Original uploader was Alan p at it.wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPteriomorphia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newell 1965