Ptychonema marocanum

No picture of Ptychonema marocanum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ptychonema marocanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461 Mya to 459.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician468–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461 Mya459.3 Mya468.5 Mya456.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Ptychonema marocanum on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

2 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

Tachilla — 31.42°N, 4.22°WZahorany — 50.04°N, 14.48°E

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

Ptychonema marocanum and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ptychonema marocanum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ptychonema marocanum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 2 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 Ptychonema marocanum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Ptychonema marocanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ptychonema marocanum 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 itPtychonema through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Horný 1997