Plectatrypa (Gutnia) variabilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Plectatrypa (Gutnia)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Plectatrypa (Gutnia) variabilis 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Plectatrypa (Gutnia) variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plectatrypa (Gutnia) variabilis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Plectatrypa (Gutnia) variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Amsdenina4 sites
- Ancillotoechia4 sites
- Caryogyps chattertoni4 sites
- Chonetoidea4 sites
- Cliftonia4 sites
- Clorinda4 sites
- Dalejina4 sites
- Dicoelosia4 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Ygerodiscus)4 sites
- Eospinatrypa4 sites
- Epitomyonia amplissima4 sites
- Flabellitesia kessei4 sites
- Gracianella4 sites
- Isorthis4 sites
- Leptaena4 sites
- Liljevallia amorpha4 sites
- Lissatrypa atheroidea4 sites
- Merista4 sites
- Morinorhynchus crispus4 sites
- Nucleospira4 sites
- Pseudomendacella4 sites
- Reticulatrypa4 sites
- Rhynchotreta americaniformis4 sites
- Skenidioides operosa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plectatrypa (Gutnia) variabilis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plectatrypa (Gutnia) variabilis 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 Plectatrypa (Gutnia) variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plectatrypa (Gutnia) variabilis 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 itPlectatrypa (Gutnia) through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Johnson et al. 1976)