Ptychomphalina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MourloniidesPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 224 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 76 occurrencesDevonian — about 23 of 76 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 76 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 37 of 76 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 76 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 76 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 8 of 76 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 76 occurrences438–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence413–405 Mya — about 4 occurrences405–397 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences397–389 Mya — about 12 occurrences389–381 Mya — about 7 occurrences349–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–333 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences317–309 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences309–301 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences301–293 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences293–285 Mya — about 11 occurrences285–277 Mya — about 5 occurrences277–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–261 Mya — about 5 occurrences261–253 Mya — about 14 occurrences253–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–229 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences229–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 2 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 5 occurrences430.6 Mya205.7 Mya438 Mya197 Mya

76 occurrences of Ptychomphalina on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

76 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

27 formations

Columbus Limestone — 40.21°N, 83.18°WColumbus Limestone — 40.11°N, 83.14°WCattle Creek — 25.21°S, 148.78°EToyoma — 38.67°N, 141.30°EToyoma — 38.61°N, 141.29°EToyoma — 38.78°N, 141.35°EToyoma — 38.53°N, 141.49°EPraha — 49.92°N, 14.08°EPraha — 50.05°N, 14.42°EFerntree — 42.78°S, 147.37°EFerntree — 42.58°S, 148.09°EFerntree — 42.78°S, 147.21°EFerntree — 42.79°S, 147.06°ETrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°ETrochitenkalk — 51.66°N, 9.06°ETrochitenkalk — 49.28°N, 8.70°EIngelara — 25.33°S, 148.30°EDenay Limestone — 39.55°N, 116.28°WDenay Limestone — 39.98°N, 116.27°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WLucas — 42.10°N, 83.19°WCascaden — 65.49°N, 148.47°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WDisappointment Bay — 76.60°N, 88.58°WBoone — 35.80°N, 91.72°WCoyrie — 25.30°S, 115.95°ETully — 42.83°N, 75.78°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 76.13°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.75°WKopanina — 50.67°N, 15.17°EKowaragi — 38.95°N, 141.63°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 71.85°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EWasp Head — 35.67°S, 150.30°E

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The named rock units Ptychomphalina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptychomphalina and its relatives

Permian

Where Ptychomphalina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,374 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Ptychomphalina, 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

27 references

Each of the 76 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. 15 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 Ptychomphalina 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 Ptychomphalina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ptychomphalina 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. (Fischer 1885)