Plagiorhyncha

Plagiorhyncha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CamarotoechiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 73 occurrencesSilurian — about 63 of 73 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 10 of 73 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 4 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 5 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 4 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 6 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 10 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 9 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 6 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 6 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 4 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 3 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 3 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 3 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence438.6 Mya393.47 Mya444 Mya387 Mya

73 occurrences of Plagiorhyncha on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

73 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

24 formations

Ross Brook — 45.62°N, 61.97°WRiga — 54.65°N, 23.03°ERiga — 55.24°N, 23.51°ERiga — 55.08°N, 25.42°ERiga — 55.00°N, 23.30°ESkaly — 50.47°N, 18.38°EPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 56.00°N, 25.84°EPaprieniai — 55.55°N, 24.10°EPaprieniai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EPaprieniai — 55.22°N, 23.87°EDubysa — 56.30°N, 23.80°EDubysa — 55.74°N, 23.11°EDubysa — 55.09°N, 22.27°EDubysa — 54.65°N, 23.03°EGeluva — 54.65°N, 23.03°EGeluva — 55.08°N, 25.42°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMiddle Elton — 52.00°N, 4.00°WElton Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WRoss Point — 45.62°N, 61.97°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EMulde Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°ERiga and Geluva — 54.65°N, 23.03°EZelkovice — 50.00°N, 14.05°EFrench River — 45.75°N, 62.17°WLas Arroyacas-Bachtal — 42.97°N, 0.85°WDamery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WFröjel — 57.33°N, 18.20°EBirstonas — 55.74°N, 23.11°EPagegiai — 55.21°N, 22.36°ESiesartis — 55.24°N, 23.51°EJurmala — 54.65°N, 23.03°ESvencionys — 55.22°N, 23.87°ECardiola — 46.60°N, 12.87°E

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The named rock units Plagiorhyncha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plagiorhyncha and its relatives

Silurian

Where Plagiorhyncha and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

421 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Plagiorhyncha, 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

19 references

Each of the 73 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. 7 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

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Picture of Plagiorhyncha

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No 3D scan of Plagiorhyncha 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McLearn 1918