Plectonotus

No picture of Plectonotus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plectonotus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlectonotidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Plectonotidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plectonotidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Plectonotidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 80 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 26 of 80 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 48 of 80 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 80 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 5 occurrences440–436 Mya — about 7 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 6 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–422 Mya — about 3 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 3 occurrences419–415 Mya — about 4 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 3 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 4 occurrences409–405 Mya — about 5 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 5 occurrences402–398 Mya — about 5 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 6 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 6 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 6 occurrences388–384 Mya — about 1 occurrence384–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences378–374 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451 Mya382.31 Mya460 Mya357 Mya

80 occurrences of Plectonotus 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

80 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

36 formations

Gydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 32.64°S, 19.41°EGydo — 33.31°S, 22.43°EGydo — 34.01°S, 23.46°EGydo — 32.40°S, 20.67°EPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WPimenteira — 7.40°S, 41.52°WPimenteira — 7.00°S, 42.00°WPimenteira — 7.08°S, 41.65°WPimenteira — 6.25°S, 41.52°WHorlick — 84.75°S, 115.00°WMartinsburg — 37.38°N, 80.86°WRogers City — 45.42°N, 83.82°WRogers City — 45.26°N, 83.40°WRogers City — 45.31°N, 83.48°WPentamerus Sandstone — 52.00°N, 3.00°WPentamerus Sandstone — 52.64°N, 2.92°WPonta Grossa Shale — 7.00°S, 38.00°WChapman Sandstone — 46.65°N, 68.17°WChapman Sandstone — 46.68°N, 68.02°WBurgsvik Beds — 57.04°N, 18.28°ERose Hill — 39.59°N, 78.83°WRose Hill — 39.65°N, 78.78°WDamery Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WCowleigh Park Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WSalar de Rincon — 24.00°S, 67.00°WLower Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°ESalar del Rincon — 24.00°S, 67.00°WPitinga — 1.13°S, 57.75°WAtafaitafa — 26.42°N, 7.30°EVoorstehoek — 33.36°S, 19.51°EGamka — 32.63°S, 19.40°EIdri — 27.50°N, 13.50°ECordobes — 33.00°S, 55.00°WMaecuru — 2.00°S, 54.00°WMoydart — 45.62°N, 61.97°W

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The named rock units Plectonotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plectonotus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Plectonotus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

587 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Plectonotus, 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

30 references

Each of the 80 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. 18 further references are not listed. 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 Plectonotus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plectonotus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clarke 1899)