Pterosphenus schucherti

Pterosphenus schucherti

C. Schuchert · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterosphenusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pterosphenus
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Pterosphenus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
coastal,oceanic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Pterosphenus

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 18 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence56 Mya37.71 Mya59.7 Mya33.4 Mya

19 occurrences of Pterosphenus schucherti on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

19 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

10 formations

Yazoo — 31.93°N, 88.46°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WTwiggs — 32.70°N, 83.63°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WTupelo Bay — 33.33°N, 79.67°WTupelo Bay — 33.21°N, 80.45°WYazoo Clay — 32.03°N, 91.03°WCrystal River — 29.65°N, 82.60°WClinchfield — 32.91°N, 83.36°WVincentown — 39.94°N, 74.75°WParkers Ferry — 33.24°N, 80.44°W

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The named rock units Pterosphenus schucherti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterosphenus schucherti and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pterosphenus schucherti and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

409 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Pterosphenus schucherti, 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

14 references

Each of the 19 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. 2 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 content3

Picture of Pterosphenus schucherti

Source
GBIF
Credit
C. Schuchert
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pterosphenus schucherti · IITB:R:1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itPterosphenus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lucas 1898