Pteronitella

No picture of Pteronitella 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 Pteronitella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterineidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterineidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterineidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterineidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 43 occurrencesSilurian — about 40 of 43 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 43 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–425 Mya — about 8 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 12 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 6 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–418 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432.9 Mya419.62 Mya444 Mya392 Mya

43 occurrences of Pteronitella 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

43 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

21 formations

Overton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WSteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°ESteinsfjorden — 60.17°N, 10.30°EUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WLeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WLuesma — 41.63°N, 0.88°WWhitcliffe Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WDrom Point — 52.13°N, 10.25°WDamery Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WCowleigh Park Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WBringewood Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WDalhousie Shale — 48.07°N, 66.37°WSkala — 49.58°N, 23.90°EAlcolea — 40.40°N, 3.68°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WUpper Whitcliffe — 52.00°N, 3.00°WXiajiaqiao — 29.25°N, 114.83°EUpper Blaisdon Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°WLower Longhope Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°WUpper Longhope Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.50°N, 2.08°WHögklint — 57.62°N, 18.27°E

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The named rock units Pteronitella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pteronitella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pteronitella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

400 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Pteronitella, 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

19 references

Each of the 43 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. 7 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 content0

No picture of Pteronitella 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 Pteronitella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pteronitella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1874