Plectorhynchella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlectorhynchellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 368.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 6 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 1 occurrence369–367 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410.62 Mya368.5 Mya414 Mya358 Mya

6 occurrences of Plectorhynchella 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

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

4 formations

Knoppenbiessen — 50.97°N, 7.17°EZlichov Limestone — 49.50°N, 14.33°EAkbaital — 38.47°N, 74.37°ENehden — 51.43°N, 8.63°E

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The named rock units Plectorhynchella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plectorhynchella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Plectorhynchella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

301 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Plectorhynchella, 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 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 Plectorhynchella 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 Plectorhynchella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plectorhynchella 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 itPlectorhynchellinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Muir-Wood 1951