Ptychopleurella bouchardi

Ptychopleurella bouchardi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychopleurellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 421.3 Mya.

Silurian — about 19 of 19 occurrencesSilurian433–433 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–430 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430.6 Mya425 Mya433.4 Mya420.8 Mya

19 occurrences of Ptychopleurella bouchardi on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

19 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

Slite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EHamra Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ESundre Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ELerberget Marlstone — 57.63°N, 18.30°ESpangande Limestone — 57.63°N, 18.30°ESlite — 57.63°N, 18.30°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WUpper Flaxley Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°W

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

Ptychopleurella bouchardi and its relatives

Silurian

Where Ptychopleurella bouchardi and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

350 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Ptychopleurella bouchardi, 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

5 references

Each of the 19 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

Picture of Ptychopleurella bouchardi

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No 3D scan of Ptychopleurella bouchardi 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 itPtychopleurella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1847)