Plagiostoma punctatum

Plagiostoma punctatum

Gautier, Emile Félix · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
PlagiostomaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Limidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Limidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Limidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 39 of 94 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 50 of 94 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 94 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 94 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 6 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 14 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 14 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 7 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 18 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 23 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 3 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences201.4 Mya165.3 Mya206.6 Mya160.6 Mya

94 occurrences of Plagiostoma punctatum on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

94 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

13 formations

Kossen — 47.78°N, 13.80°EKossen — 47.66°N, 12.45°EKossen — 47.57°N, 11.77°EKossen — 47.75°N, 14.73°EKossen — 47.55°N, 12.17°EKossen — 47.58°N, 12.57°EKoessen — 47.00°N, 13.00°EKoessen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.70°ETurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WTurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WTurmiel — 40.40°N, 1.50°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EJhurio — 23.50°N, 70.50°EBlue Lias — 51.17°N, 3.27°WRiva di Solto — 46.00°N, 10.00°EZu Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°ESedrina Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°ESierra Santa Rosa — 30.72°N, 112.55°WWestbury — 50.97°N, 2.96°WÁgua de Madeiros — 39.73°N, 9.04°W

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The named rock units Plagiostoma punctatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plagiostoma punctatum and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Plagiostoma punctatum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

269 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Plagiostoma punctatum, 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

13 references

Each of the 94 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. 1 further reference is 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 Plagiostoma punctatum

Source
GBIF
Credit
Gautier, Emile Félix
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 itPlagiostoma through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1818