Ptychosyrinx

Ptychosyrinx is a genus of sea snails and marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.

Ptychosyrinx

via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. 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
TurridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 12 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 22 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.9–2.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–35 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33.9 Mya2.58 Mya38.4 Mya35 ka

22 occurrences of Ptychosyrinx on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

22 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

5 formations

Keasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 45.72°N, 123.20°WKeasey — 45.73°N, 123.26°WKeasey — 45.76°N, 123.21°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBlakeley — 47.55°N, 122.34°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.59°N, 123.21°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WPittsburg — 45.82°N, 123.18°WBatuputih — 9.11°S, 124.89°E

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The named rock units Ptychosyrinx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

202 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Ptychosyrinx, 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

6 references

Each of the 22 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 Ptychosyrinx

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ptychosyrinx 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTurridae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Thiele 1925)