Periphragella plicata

Periphragella plicata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PeriphragellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100.5 Mya83.6 Mya107 Mya71.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Periphragella plicata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

5 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.

Periphragella plicata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Periphragella plicata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Periphragella plicata, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Periphragella plicata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Periphragella plicata 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 itPeriphragella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schrammen 1902)