Pterochiton

Pterochiton is an extinct genus of polyplacophoran molluscs.

Pterochiton

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptochitonidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 313.8 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPermian315–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307 Mya274.4 Mya314.7 Mya266 Mya

5 occurrences of Pterochiton on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

5 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

4 formations

Coyote Butte — 43.95°N, 119.79°WLazy Bend — 32.05°N, 95.50°WVanport — 39.07°N, 82.45°WRoad Canyon — 30.37°N, 103.22°W

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The named rock units Pterochiton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterochiton and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pterochiton and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pterochiton, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Pterochiton

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pterochiton 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.

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 itLeptochitonidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter 1882