Pterochiton spatulatus

No picture of Pterochiton spatulatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Pterochiton spatulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterochitonPBDB
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 most 7.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 313.8 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous314–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314.3 Mya305.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Pterochiton spatulatus 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

2 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

2 formations

Lazy Bend — 32.05°N, 95.50°WVanport — 39.07°N, 82.45°W

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The named rock units Pterochiton spatulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pterochiton spatulatus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pterochiton spatulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pterochiton spatulatus, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Pterochiton spatulatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Pterochiton spatulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pterochiton spatulatus 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 itPterochiton through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoare et al. 1972