Pterodonta

Pterodonta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TylostomatidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Campaniloidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Campaniloidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Campaniloidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 56 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 51 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 51 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 51 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 33 of 51 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 51 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 51 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 3 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 6 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 17 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 13 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165.3 Mya66 Mya170 Mya54 Mya

51 occurrences of Pterodonta on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

51 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

11 formations

Galala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°EMarnes de Smail — 36.06°N, 4.39°EMarnes de Smail — 36.20°N, 4.04°EMarnes de Smail — 35.19°N, 4.02°EMarnes de Smail — 35.86°N, 3.83°EHanifa — 23.90°N, 46.28°EHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°EHanifa — 23.08°N, 46.53°EHanifa — 22.75°N, 46.63°EHanifa — 22.40°N, 46.95°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°ERaha — 29.13°N, 33.28°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EKazhdumi — 29.97°N, 52.90°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°ECerro Dorotea — 51.30°S, 72.32°WQasr Al Abid — 32.30°N, 20.99°ENantoco — 28.80°S, 70.71°W

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The named rock units Pterodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterodonta and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pterodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

377 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Pterodonta, 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

15 references

Each of the 51 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. 3 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 Pterodonta

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Pterodonta 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 itTylostomatidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1843