Plaesiomys porcata

No picture of Plaesiomys porcata 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 porcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 least 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 448.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 14 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448.8 Mya445.2 Mya449.7 Mya442.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Plaesiomys porcata 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

8 formations

Killey Bridge — 54.60°N, 6.88°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.85°N, 4.96°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.82°N, 4.65°WDolhir — 52.93°N, 3.18°WCyrn-y-brain — 52.93°N, 3.18°WWenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WHigh Mains — 55.29°N, 4.73°WPortrane Limestone — 53.49°N, 6.10°WRawtheyan Mudstone — 51.83°N, 3.58°W

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The named rock units Plaesiomys porcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plaesiomys porcata and its relatives

Ordovician

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

Found in the same rock

278 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Plaesiomys porcata, 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

7 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

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No picture of Plaesiomys porcata 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 porcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plaesiomys porcata 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. (M'Coy 1846)