Plagioptychus zansi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlagioptychusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 10 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Plagioptychus zansi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

10 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

1 formation

Guinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.40°WGuinea Corn — 18.16°N, 77.38°W

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The named rock units Plagioptychus zansi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plagioptychus zansi and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Plagioptychus zansi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plagioptychus zansi, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 Plagioptychus zansi 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 Plagioptychus zansi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plagioptychus zansi 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 itPlagioptychus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chubb 1956