Ptychosyrinx facula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychosyrinxPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Ptychosyrinx facula on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
12 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Ptychosyrinx facula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptychosyrinx facula and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ptychosyrinx facula and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Procerapex bentsonae10 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) clementensis9 sites
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) tessellata8 sites
- Echinophoria dalli8 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis8 sites
- Turricula keaseyensis7 sites
- Bonellitia (Bonellitia) smithwickensis6 sites
- Conomitra vernoniana6 sites
- Exilia bentsonae6 sites
- Natica (Natica) weaveri6 sites
- Olequahia schencki6 sites
- Trophonopsis platacantha6 sites
- Boreoscala5 sites
- Moerella quasimacoma5 sites
- Scaphander impunctatus5 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) keaseyense4 sites
- Parasyrinx delicata4 sites
- Pleuroliria oregonensis4 sites
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) nodulosa3 sites
- Anechinocardium weaveri3 sites
- Bonellitia (Admetula) tumida3 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni3 sites
- Sinum obliquum3 sites
- Ameranella terrysmithae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ptychosyrinx facula, 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- Bathyal gastropods of the family Turridae in the Early Oligocene Keasey Formation in Oregon, with a review of some deep-water genera in the Paleocene of the Eastern Pacific11
- Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Ptychosyrinx facula 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 Ptychosyrinx facula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptychosyrinx facula 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 itPtychosyrinx through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hickman 1976