Plectophyllum kindlei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Plectophyllum kindlei 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Plectophyllum kindlei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plectophyllum kindlei and its relatives
DevonianWhere Plectophyllum kindlei and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Phillipsastrea4 sites
- Thamnophyllum4 sites
- Bouvierphyllum altum3 sites
- Bouvierphyllum maclareni3 sites
- Chuanbeiphyllum3 sites
- Disphyllum3 sites
- Frechastraea3 sites
- Hexagonaria3 sites
- Hunanophrentis3 sites
- Mictophyllum3 sites
- Pantophyllum3 sites
- Piceaphyllum3 sites
- Smithicyathus2 sites
- Smithiphyllum imperfectum2 sites
- Tarphyphyllum securiense2 sites
- Wapitiphyllum vallatum2 sites
- Atrypa1 site
- Bouvierphyllum cardinalense1 site
- Ceciliaphyllum1 site
- Devonoproductus1 site
- Hankaxis ostentus1 site
- Kakisaphyhllum larus1 site
- Macgeea1 site
- Orecopia cotei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plectophyllum kindlei, 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- The distribution of rugose corals in Frasnian outcrop sequences of North America3
- Frasnian rugose corals of western Canada, part 3A: The massive Phillipsastreidae - Phillipsastrea, Chuanbeiphyllum2
- The Upper Devonian gastropod Orecopia in western Canada1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Plectophyllum kindlei 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 Plectophyllum kindlei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plectophyllum kindlei 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlectophyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1945)