Planutenia flectata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlanuteniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenothecidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stenothecidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Stenothecidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenothecidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 508.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Planutenia flectata on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
5 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
3 formations
- Zwetau Formation2
- Forteau Formation · Labrador Group2
- Kinzers Formation1
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The named rock units Planutenia flectata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Planutenia flectata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Planutenia flectata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Chancelloria3 sites
- Pelagiella3 sites
- Yochelcionella chinensis3 sites
- Eoobolus priscus2 sites
- Parkula2 sites
- Salterella2 sites
- Yochelcionella americana2 sites
- Allatheca1 site
- Archiasterella1 site
- Calodiscus lobatus1 site
- Cassitella baculata1 site
- Clavitella curvata1 site
- Conotheca australiensis1 site
- Cupitheca holocyclata1 site
- Davidonia taconica1 site
- Dodecaactinella1 site
- Echinoderm ossicle1 site
- Eothele tubulus1 site
- Hadrotreta1 site
- Hexactinellid spicules1 site
- Hyolithellus1 site
- Hyolithellus micans1 site
- Hyolithid sp.1 site
- Lapworthella shodakensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Planutenia flectata, 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
3 references- Small shelly fossils from the argillaceous facies of the Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland2
- Lower Cambrian carbonates from eastern Germany:palaeontology, stratigraphy and palaeogeography2
- Early Cambrian brachiopods and other shelly fossils from the basal Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania1
Each of the 5 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 Planutenia flectata 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 Planutenia flectata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Planutenia flectata 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 itPlanutenia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Elicki 1994