Plagiothyra

No picture of Plagiothyra was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Plagiothyra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlagiothyridaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 19 of 19 occurrencesDevonian388–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 2 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 2 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 2 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388.4 Mya371.6 Mya

19 occurrences of Plagiothyra on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

19 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

10 formations

Schwelm — 51.28°N, 7.28°ESchwelm — 51.35°N, 7.58°ECürten — 50.40°N, 8.18°EBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.07°E"Massenkalk" — 51.22°N, 7.08°EHargreaves — 14.86°S, 128.50°EBuechel — 51.00°N, 7.14°EPlattenkalk — 51.02°N, 7.20°ETorquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WLummaton Shell Bed — 50.60°N, 3.63°WRoteisenstein — 51.37°N, 8.70°E

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The named rock units Plagiothyra 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.

Plagiothyra and its relatives

Devonian

Where Plagiothyra and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

291 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Plagiothyra, 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

9 references

Each of the 19 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 Plagiothyra was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Plagiothyra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plagiothyra 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 itPlagiothyridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whidborne 1892