Plaesiomys idahoensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlaesiomysPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Plaesiomys idahoensis 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
2 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
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The named rock units Plaesiomys idahoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plaesiomys idahoensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Plaesiomys idahoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Anazyga recurvirostra2 sites
- Austinella2 sites
- Glyptorthis pulchra2 sites
- Lordorthis variabilis2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Zygospira circularis2 sites
- Zygospira idahoensis2 sites
- Zygospira lebanonensis2 sites
- Diceromyonia tersa1 site
- Eochonetes1 site
- Eochonetes voldemortus1 site
- Rafinesquina1 site
- Rhynchonellidae1 site
- Strophomena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plaesiomys idahoensis, 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
2 references- Phylogenetic revision of the Late Ordovician orthid brachiopod genera Plaesiomys and Hebertella from Laurentia1
- Brachiopod fauna of Saturday Mountain Formation Southern Lemhi Range Idaho1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plaesiomys idahoensis 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 Plaesiomys idahoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plaesiomys idahoensis 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 itPlaesiomys through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ross 1959)