Ptychopleurella uniplicata
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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 9.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
37 occurrences of Ptychopleurella uniplicata 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
37 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Ptychopleurella uniplicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ptychopleurella uniplicata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ptychopleurella uniplicata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Skenidioides multifarius17 sites
- Hesperorthis13 sites
- Anoptambonites myriomorpheus10 sites
- Eripnifera praecipitis9 sites
- Phragmorthis buttsi9 sites
- Amblysiphonella grossa7 sites
- Dicoelosia jonesridgensis7 sites
- Ptychopleurella mediocostata7 sites
- Salopina horseshoensis7 sites
- Sigmelasma7 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus7 sites
- Austinella kankakensis6 sites
- Diochthofera conspicua6 sites
- Epitomyonia relicina6 sites
- Glyptorthis5 sites
- Laticrura5 sites
- Scaphorthis5 sites
- Corymbospongia adnata4 sites
- Cystothalamiella ducta4 sites
- Dicoelosia4 sites
- Laticrura erecta4 sites
- Phragmorthis4 sites
- Rigbyetia obconica4 sites
- Salopina4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Ptychopleurella uniplicata, 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- Middle and Late Ordovician brachiopods from the eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California33
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from west-central Alaska: systematics, ecology and palaeobiogeography4
Each of the 37 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 content0
No picture of Ptychopleurella uniplicata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ptychopleurella uniplicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956