Plectochitina

No picture of Plectochitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plectochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhizopodeaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 7.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 430.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 20 occurrencesSilurian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesSilurian443–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences440.5 Mya432.9 Mya443.6 Mya430.1 Mya

20 occurrences of Plectochitina 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

20 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

6 formations

Jaani — 58.52°N, 24.68°EVelise — 58.52°N, 24.68°EBecscie — 49.80°N, 64.42°WRumba — 58.54°N, 23.44°ESaarde — 58.32°N, 25.50°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°E

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The named rock units Plectochitina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Plectochitina and its relatives

Silurian

Where Plectochitina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Plectochitina, 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

5 references

Each of the 20 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 Plectochitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plectochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

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 itRhizopodea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.