Ptomatis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlectonotidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Plectonotidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plectonotidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Plectonotidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 351.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 342.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 23 occurrencesDevonian — about 22 of 23 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferous421–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 1 occurrence408–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–403 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 2 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 3 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 3 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences379–376 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences376–373 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393.47 Mya351.9 Mya421 Mya341 Mya

23 occurrences of Ptomatis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

23 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

12 formations

Ponta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.49°WMoscow — 42.33°N, 74.31°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 76.70°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.05°N, 77.52°WGydo — 32.64°S, 19.41°EGydo — 32.18°S, 18.90°EMarcellus — 42.90°N, 75.60°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WTra-Tra — 33.28°S, 19.52°EGamka — 32.63°S, 19.40°EMaecuru — 2.00°S, 54.00°WPonta Grossa Shale — 7.00°S, 38.00°WLogan — 38.78°N, 82.93°WChemung — 42.03°N, 76.36°W

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The named rock units Ptomatis 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.

Ptomatis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Ptomatis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

272 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Ptomatis, 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

10 references

Each of the 23 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No picture of Ptomatis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ptomatis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlectonotidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clarke 1899