Ptychopleurella transversa

Ptychopleurella transversa

Perens, Helle · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 7.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.8 Mya to 433.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 431.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 6 occurrencesSilurian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesSilurian443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences440.8 Mya433.5 Mya443.6 Mya430.7 Mya

6 occurrences of Ptychopleurella transversa 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

6 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

1 formation

Jaani — 58.12°N, 22.19°EJaani — 58.46°N, 26.33°E

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The named rock units Ptychopleurella transversa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptychopleurella transversa and its relatives

Silurian

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

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ptychopleurella transversa, 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

1 reference

Each of the 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Ptychopleurella transversa

Source
GBIF
Credit
Perens, Helle
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rubel 2011