Placotriplesia

Placotriplesia

The Field Museum of Natural History · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 14 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 6 of 14 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences449.5 Mya430.6 Mya458.8 Mya426.1 Mya

14 occurrences of Placotriplesia 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

14 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.

Found in

4 formations

Anderken — 43.88°N, 75.55°EAnderken — 43.92°N, 75.48°EAnderken — 45.08°N, 73.38°EMotol — 50.08°N, 14.47°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°ESt. Clair Limestone — 35.77°N, 91.63°WClarita — 34.30°N, 96.80°W

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The named rock units Placotriplesia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Placotriplesia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Placotriplesia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Placotriplesia, 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 14 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

Media content1

Picture of Placotriplesia

Source
GBIF
Credit
The Field Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Placotriplesia 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 itTriplesiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.