Plectella

No picture of Plectella 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 Plectella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlectambonitinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 475.6 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 27 of 27 occurrencesOrdovician476–475 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471.3 Mya461.1 Mya476.1 Mya457.7 Mya

27 occurrences of Plectella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

27 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

9 formations

Leetse — 59.75°N, 30.43°ELeetse — 60.07°N, 32.35°ELeetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°ELeetse — 59.63°N, 30.80°ELeetse — 60.03°N, 32.63°ELeetse — 59.98°N, 32.34°EKriukai — 56.30°N, 22.86°EKriukai — 56.18°N, 23.13°EShan MaJiaGou — 41.00°N, 123.00°EMäeküla — 59.40°N, 24.61°ELeetse — 59.40°N, 24.61°EGaide — 55.57°N, 26.65°ESpalviskiai — 56.24°N, 24.86°ESakyna — 56.30°N, 22.86°EBabushkinskaya — 54.68°N, 22.63°E

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The named rock units Plectella 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.

Plectella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Plectella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

92 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Plectella, 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

10 references

Each of the 27 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 Plectella 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 Plectella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plectella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPlectambonitinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamansky 1901