Caeroplecia

No picture of Caeroplecia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Caeroplecia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TriplesiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 600 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 456.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 452.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457.2 Mya – 456.6 Mya458.7 Mya452 Mya

6 occurrences of Caeroplecia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

6 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

3 formations

Whittery Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WCalapuja — 15.27°S, 70.25°WHagley Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°W

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The named rock units Caeroplecia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Caeroplecia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Caeroplecia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Caeroplecia, 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 6 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 content0

No picture of Caeroplecia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Caeroplecia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Caeroplecia 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 itTriplesiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williams 1974