Plectothyella sp.
No picture of Plectothyella sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plectothyella sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 438.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Plectothyella sp. on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
2 formations
- Clemville Formation · Chaleurs Group1
- Weir Formation · Chaleurs Group1
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The named rock units Plectothyella sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plectothyella sp. and its relatives
SilurianWhere Plectothyella sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Atrypa2 sites
- Dalmanella2 sites
- Delthyris2 sites
- Dolerorthis2 sites
- Drummockina sp.2 sites
- Hindella2 sites
- Isorthis2 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis2 sites
- Leptostrophia2 sites
- Plectodonta2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Eoleptostrophia aff. mullocensis1 site
- Eoleptostrophia sp.1 site
- Eostrophonella1 site
- Fenestrirostra glacialis1 site
- Hyattidina1 site
- Leangella1 site
- Leptaena1 site
- Mendacella1 site
- Mendocella sp.1 site
- Protatrypa1 site
- Protomegastrophina sp.1 site
- Salopina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plectothyella sp., 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plectothyella sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plectothyella sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Plectothyella sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.