Plagioecia

Plagioecia

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
PlagioeciidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 86 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 39 of 86 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 86 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 86 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 86 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 86 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 86 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 86 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 86 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 86 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 13 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 23 occurrences151–145 Mya — about 3 occurrences145–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–41 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences41–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–5.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.8–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences168.2 Mya2.58 Mya174 Mya0 Mya

86 occurrences of Plagioecia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

86 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

26 formations

Alcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EArgiles a Lopha gregarea — 49.30°N, 0.07°WDenton — 32.75°N, 97.25°WDenton — 32.83°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.15°N, 97.23°WCalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°EKorojon — 22.99°S, 114.09°EOsmington Oolite — 51.75°N, 1.25°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WHambleton Oolite — 54.25°N, 1.07°WHambleton Oolite — 54.21°N, 0.29°WTichilesti — 44.42°N, 28.48°EHarudi — 23.40°N, 68.80°EHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.70°EClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EMarianna Limestone — 31.93°N, 88.94°WMarianna Limestone — 31.53°N, 87.89°WGehrden — 52.31°N, 9.59°ERoca — 39.00°S, 67.56°WMont Aime — 48.50°N, 3.00°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WCampanien 1-2 — 45.75°N, 0.47°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.75°WCouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.10°N, 5.48°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.20°N, 5.48°EMoodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°W

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The named rock units Plagioecia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plagioecia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Plagioecia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,246 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Plagioecia, 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

36 references

Each of the 86 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 Plagioecia

Credit
Alison M. Fortunato
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itPlagioeciidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu 1918