Desmeplagioecia lineata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DesmeplagioeciaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Desmeplagioecia lineata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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 Desmeplagioecia lineata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Desmeplagioecia lineata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Desmeplagioecia lineata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Adeonellopsis obliqua1 site
- Adeonellopsis sulcata1 site
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis1 site
- Arachnopusia acanthoceros1 site
- Bracebridgia pyriformis1 site
- Caberea grandis1 site
- Caleschara denticulata1 site
- Cellaria australis1 site
- Cellaria immersa1 site
- Cellaria pilosa1 site
- Cellaria tenuirostris1 site
- Cellepora1 site
- Chaperia multifida1 site
- Conescharellina angulopora1 site
- Cryptosula1 site
- Emballotheca quadrata1 site
- Escharoides excavata1 site
- Exechonella paucipunctata1 site
- Holoporella hastigera1 site
- Lanceopora obliqua1 site
- Margaretta1 site
- Mesonea radians1 site
- Nellia tenella1 site
- Nevianipora interjuncta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Desmeplagioecia lineata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Desmeplagioecia lineata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Museums Victoria
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Desmeplagioecia lineata 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 itDesmeplagioecia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (MacGillivray 1885)