Onniella plicata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnniellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Onniella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Onniella
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Onniella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 600 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.2 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Onniella plicata 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
3 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
1 formation
- Aleman Formation · Montoya Group3
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The named rock units Onniella plicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Onniella plicata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Onniella plicata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Diceromyonia crassa3 sites
- Hypsiptycha argenturbicum3 sites
- Hiscobeccus capax2 sites
- Strophomena2 sites
- Tetraphalerella neglecta2 sites
- Eochonetes magna1 site
- Eochonetes minerva1 site
- Eochonetes mucronata1 site
- Gnamptorhynchos prayi1 site
- Rhynchotrema iowense1 site
- Zygospira resupinata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Onniella plicata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Onniella plicata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Onniella plicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itOnniella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howe 1965