Plectostroma salairicum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectostromaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
12 occurrences of Plectostroma salairicum 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
12 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Plectostroma salairicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plectostroma salairicum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Plectostroma salairicum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Thamnopora yavorskyi4 sites
- Brachiopoda3 sites
- Favosites goldfussi3 sites
- Zelolasma3 sites
- Favosites intricatus2 sites
- Habrostroma centrotum2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Labechiella2 sites
- Parallelostroma foveolatum2 sites
- Squameofavosites2 sites
- Clathrodictyon1 site
- Embolophyllum1 site
- Habrostroma1 site
- Hexagonaria1 site
- Intexodictyon perplexum1 site
- Parallelopora1 site
- Stromatopora hensoni1 site
- Syringostromella zintchenkovi1 site
- Tryplasma aequabile1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Plectostroma salairicum, 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
4 references- Devonian reef types in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) and their faunal composition6
- Earliest Pragian (Early Devonian) corals and stromatoporoids from reefal settings in the Cantabrian Zone (N Spain)4
- Lower Devonian stromatoporoids of the Sierra Morena (Southern Spain) and their palaeogeographic affinities1
- Stromatoporoids from the Emsian (Lower Devonian) of Arctic Canada1
Each of the 12 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 Plectostroma salairicum 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 Plectostroma salairicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plectostroma salairicum 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 itPlectostroma through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yavorskii 1930