Placunopsis radiata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlacunopsisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Placunopsis
Life habit
epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Placunopsis
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Placunopsis
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 11 of 37 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 37 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 24 of 37 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 37 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 5 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 1 occurrence181–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 5 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence192.9 Mya149.2 Mya201 Mya142 Mya

37 occurrences of Placunopsis radiata on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

37 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

17 formations

Kap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WArgiles a Lopha gregarea — 49.30°N, 0.07°WTurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.80°N, 2.28°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.60°N, 2.45°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.60°N, 2.45°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.32°N, 2.23°WTurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WTurmiel — 40.40°N, 1.50°WCoralline Oolite — 53.98°N, 1.53°WPassage Beds — 53.97°N, 1.08°WLower Calcareous Grit — 51.75°N, 1.25°WArgile de Villerville — 49.37°N, 0.08°ENothe Grits — 50.80°N, 2.28°WAberhan Sinemur — 33.47°S, 70.75°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WTakwahoni — 58.66°N, 132.88°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EOzirovo — 43.25°N, 23.41°E

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The named rock units Placunopsis radiata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Placunopsis radiata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Placunopsis radiata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

319 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Placunopsis radiata, 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

9 references

Each of the 37 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 content0

No picture of Placunopsis radiata 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 Placunopsis radiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Placunopsis radiata 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 itPlacunopsis through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Phillips 1829)