Plaesiomys iphigenia

Plaesiomys iphigenia

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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 7.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovician458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457.8 Mya449.1 Mya

14 occurrences of Plaesiomys iphigenia 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

6 formations

Denley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 43.88°N, 75.49°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.58°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.71°N, 81.94°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.54°N, 81.53°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WAmadjuak — 68.77°N, 81.22°W

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

Plaesiomys iphigenia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Plaesiomys iphigenia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

304 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Plaesiomys iphigenia, 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

4 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 Plaesiomys iphigenia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Billings 1865)