Pyropelta

Pyropelta is a genus of small sea snails, deep-water limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyropeltidae.

Pyropelta

MNHN, Paris - CHEN Chong - 2023 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
PyropeltidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Vetigastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Pyropelta on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

4 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

2 formations

Lincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.56°WHumptulips — 47.25°N, 123.82°W

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The named rock units Pyropelta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pyropelta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pyropelta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pyropelta, 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

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pyropelta

Credit
MNHN, Paris - CHEN Chong - 2023
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itPyropeltidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McLean and Haszprunar 1987