Perimecocoelia semicostata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PerimecocoeliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Perimecocoelia semicostata 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
4 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 Perimecocoelia semicostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Perimecocoelia semicostata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Perimecocoelia semicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Phragmorthis buttsi3 sites
- Anoptambonites pulchra2 sites
- Christiania subquadrata2 sites
- Diorthelasma parvum2 sites
- Elliptoglossa ovalis2 sites
- Glyptambonites glyptus2 sites
- Glyptorthis glypta2 sites
- Laticrura pionodema2 sites
- Oxoplecia multicostellata2 sites
- Pachyglossella2 sites
- Ptychoglyptus virginiensis2 sites
- Scaphorthis virginiensis2 sites
- Schizambon2 sites
- Skenidioides2 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus2 sites
- Taphrorthis peculiaris2 sites
- Acanthambonia minutissima1 site
- Acrosaccus shuleri1 site
- Anisopleurella tricostata1 site
- Anisopleurella tricostellata1 site
- Anoptambonites grayae1 site
- Bellimurina sulcata1 site
- Biernatia minor1 site
- Bimuria (Bimuria) gilbertella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Perimecocoelia semicostata, 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- Chazyan and related brachiopods3
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from west-central Alaska: systematics, ecology and palaeobiogeography1
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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Perimecocoelia semicostata 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 Perimecocoelia semicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Perimecocoelia semicostata 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 itPerimecocoelia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956