Ptychocerithium perlamellosum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Cerithium (Ptychocerithium)PBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Cerithium
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithium
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithium
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 4.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27.3 Mya23.04 Mya34.4 Mya15.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Ptychocerithium perlamellosum on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

5 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

Nari — 28.00°N, 66.00°ENari — 26.36°N, 67.86°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°ENari — 25.38°N, 67.80°EBaghmara — 25.17°N, 90.67°E

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

Ptychocerithium perlamellosum and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Ptychocerithium perlamellosum and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Ptychocerithium perlamellosum, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 5 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Ptychocerithium perlamellosum 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 itCerithium (Ptychocerithium) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vredenburg 1928)