Ptychospirina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatyceratidaePBDB
Diet
coprophagePBDB, for Platyceratidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platyceratidae
Motility
passively mobile, epibiontPBDB, for Platyceratidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Platyceratidae

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 346.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 6 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 6 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous428–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences359–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences348–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422.7 Mya358.86 Mya428 Mya345 Mya

6 occurrences of Ptychospirina on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

6 formations

Dawson Bay — 53.00°N, 101.00°WMiaokao — 25.53°N, 103.68°EBingleburra — 32.43°S, 151.57°EPraha — 49.92°N, 14.08°EColumbus Limestone — 40.21°N, 83.18°WPozáry — 50.00°N, 14.34°E

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

Ptychospirina and its relatives

Devonian

Where Ptychospirina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ptychospirina, 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 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. 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

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No picture of Ptychospirina 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 Ptychospirina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ptychospirina 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 itPlatyceratidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perner 1907