Grammoplecia
No picture of Grammoplecia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Grammoplecia, 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 5.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
8 occurrences of Grammoplecia 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Grammoplecia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Grammoplecia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Grammoplecia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
251 taxa- Eremotoechia inchoata2 sites
- Ishimia ishimensis2 sites
- Paralenorthis2 sites
- Shlyginia2 sites
- Strophomena rukavishnikovae2 sites
- Acidaspis1 site
- Acidaspis evoluta1 site
- Ambonychinia corrugata1 site
- Ambonychinia elegans1 site
- Ambonychinia excelsa1 site
- Ambonychinia extumida1 site
- Ambonychinia intermedia1 site
- Ambonychinia kallholniensis1 site
- Ambonychinia levis1 site
- Ambonychinia pediculata1 site
- Ambonychinia quadrangulata1 site
- Ambonychinia radiata1 site
- Ambonychinia rhomboidalis1 site
- Ambonychinia striata1 site
- Ambonychinia subiniqua1 site
- Ambonychinia undulata1 site
- Ambonychinia volvens1 site
- Ambonychiopsis kallholniensis1 site
- Amphicoelia transplicata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Grammoplecia, 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
4 references- Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Anderken Formation, Kazakhstan: their ecology and systematics4
- Brachiopods of the redefined family Tritoechiidae from the Ordovician of Kazakhstan and South Urals2
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Otar Member of the Chu-Ili Range, south Kazakhstan1
- New genera of Upper Ordovician triplesiid brachiopods from Sweden1
Each of the 8 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 Grammoplecia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Grammoplecia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Grammoplecia 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.
Keep going
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. Wright and Jaanusson 1993