Pyrgotrochus elongatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PyrgotrochusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pleurotomariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pleurotomariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pleurotomariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 168.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 154.8 Mya.
5 occurrences of Pyrgotrochus elongatus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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 Pyrgotrochus elongatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pyrgotrochus elongatus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Pyrgotrochus elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Pseudomelania2 sites
- Ampullospira1 site
- Angaria1 site
- Astarte elegans1 site
- Ataphrus acmon1 site
- Bajoprosopon piardi1 site
- Bathrotomaria scrobinula1 site
- Brasilia1 site
- Bredyia1 site
- Ceratomya1 site
- Ceritella1 site
- Chomatoseris1 site
- Cirrus1 site
- Ctenostreon pectiniforme1 site
- Ctenostreon rugosum1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Cylindrobullina1 site
- Cylindrobullina kirlingtonensis1 site
- Discohelix1 site
- Entolium (Entolium) corneolum1 site
- Eopecten velatus1 site
- Erycites barodiscus1 site
- Eucycloscala praetor1 site
- Garantiana (Pseudogarantiana) dichotoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pyrgotrochus elongatus, 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- Bajoprosopon piardi n. gen. and sp. from the Middle Jurassic of France, with a revised diagnosis of the family Prosopidae von Meyer, 1860 (Brachyura, Podotremata) and notes on the availability of names introduced by Hermann von Meyer (1835, 1857)1
- Middle Jurassic gastropods from the Kahlenberg section near Ringsheim/Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany)1
- Inferior Oolite (Middle Jurassic) hardgrounds and the associated faunas at Coombe Quarry, Mapperton, near Beaminster, Dorset1
- Lazar, 20061
- Middle Jurassic Gastropods from the Central High Atlas, Morocco1
Each of the 5 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 Pyrgotrochus elongatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Pyrgotrochus elongatus 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 itPyrgotrochus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1818)