Pterochitina
No picture of Pterochitina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pterochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhizopodeaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.4 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
9 occurrences of Pterochitina on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician11%
- Silurian89%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Pterochitina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pterochitina and its relatives
SilurianWhere Pterochitina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Monograptus4 sites
- Neocolonograptus parultimus4 sites
- Phaetonides striatus4 sites
- Bleshidium3 sites
- Cardiolinka3 sites
- Fungochitina3 sites
- Mirochilina3 sites
- Monograptus transgrediens3 sites
- Neocolonograptus ultimus3 sites
- Scharyia nympha3 sites
- Urnochitina urna3 sites
- Acanthoscapha2 sites
- Anchyrochitina spp.2 sites
- Angochitina2 sites
- Atrypoidea2 sites
- Cephalopoda2 sites
- Cingulochitina2 sites
- Conochitina2 sites
- Corbuloceras2 sites
- Decoropugnax2 sites
- Eisenackitina2 sites
- Gotlandichitina sp.2 sites
- Gracianella graciosa2 sites
- Linochitina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pterochitina, 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- The Llandovery – Wenlock boundary interval in west-central continental Estonia: an example from the Suigu (S-3) core section4
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia3
- Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) conodont biostratigraphy in NW Estonia1
- Pridoli--the fourth subdivision of the Silurian1
Each of the 9 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. 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
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No picture of Pterochitina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pterochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Pterochitina 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 itRhizopodea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.