Plectorthis licta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectorthisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Plectorthis licta 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Plectorthis licta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plectorthis licta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Plectorthis licta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Glyptomenoides6 sites
- Christiania proclivis5 sites
- Qilianotryma suspectum5 sites
- Holtedahlina orientalis4 sites
- Metambonites subcarinatus4 sites
- Nikitinamena bicostata4 sites
- Ogmoplecia nesca4 sites
- Orthoidea4 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) ampla4 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) paletsae3 sites
- Acrosaccus2 sites
- Anoptambonites kovalevskii2 sites
- Glyptambonites2 sites
- Strophomena (Strophomena) orthonurensis2 sites
- Trematis2 sites
- Altaethyrella otarica1 site
- Dalmanelloidea1 site
- Gunningblandella1 site
- Phragmorthis1 site
- Rhipidomena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Plectorthis licta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plectorthis licta 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 Plectorthis licta, 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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What may have been alongside itPlectorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popov and Cocks 2006