Ptychotrygon triangularis

No picture of Ptychotrygon triangularis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ptychotrygon triangularis itself, so it was not used. 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 Ptychotrygon triangularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychotrygonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 24 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–86 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

24 occurrences of Ptychotrygon triangularis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

24 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

14 formations

Carlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 43.40°N, 103.36°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WCarlile Shale — 44.09°N, 104.68°WCrevasse Canyon — 35.20°N, 107.05°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.26°WMancos Shale — 39.00°N, 110.35°WJudith River — 47.74°N, 108.96°WTres Hermanos — 34.31°N, 106.74°WDakota — 40.06°N, 97.34°WAguja — 29.46°N, 103.56°WAtco — 32.53°N, 96.99°WAmman — 29.92°N, 36.17°EToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°WGraneros Shale — 38.93°N, 98.91°WDemopolis — 34.58°N, 88.63°WTeplice — 50.40°N, 13.94°E

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The named rock units Ptychotrygon triangularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptychotrygon triangularis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ptychotrygon triangularis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

274 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Ptychotrygon triangularis, 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

21 references

Each of the 24 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 Ptychotrygon triangularis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ptychotrygon triangularis itself, so it was not used.

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 Ptychotrygon triangularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ptychotrygon triangularis 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 itPtychotrygon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss 1845)