Ptychomya densicostata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychomyaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Ptychomya
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
7 occurrences of Ptychomya densicostata on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
7 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
5 formations
- Yatsushiro Formation2
- Alisitos Formation1
- Ishido Formation1
- Hiraiga Formation · Miyako Group1
- Arita Formation1
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The named rock units Ptychomya densicostata 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.
Ptychomya densicostata and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ptychomya densicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Pterotrigonia (Pterotrigonia)5 sites
- Gervillia (Gervillia)4 sites
- Grammatodon (Nanonavis)4 sites
- Nipponitrigonia4 sites
- Nipponitrigonia kikuchiana4 sites
- Astarte3 sites
- Cosmetodon3 sites
- Eriphyla (Eriphyla)3 sites
- Gervillaria3 sites
- Laevicardium3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Plectomya3 sites
- Rastellum carinatum3 sites
- Amygdalum2 sites
- Astarte (Astarte)2 sites
- Bakevellia (Neobakevellia)2 sites
- Entolium2 sites
- Limatula2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Neithea (Neithea)2 sites
- Neithea (Neithea) atava2 sites
- Neithea (Neithella) notabilis2 sites
- Panopea (Myopsis) nagaoi2 sites
- Panopea (Myopsis) plicata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ptychomya densicostata, 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
2 references- A systematic survey of the Mesozoic Bivalvia from Japan6
- Middle Cretaceous gastropoda from Punta China, Baja California, Mexico1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ptychomya densicostata 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 Ptychomya densicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptychomya densicostata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itPtychomya through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nagao 1934