Plectothyrella

No picture of Plectothyrella 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 Plectothyrella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RostricellulinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 97 of 109 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 12 of 109 occurrencesSilurian450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 21 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 26 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 26 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 20 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450 Mya432.4 Mya

109 occurrences of Plectothyrella 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

109 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

33 formations

Kuldiga — 56.22°N, 21.20°EKuldiga — 56.60°N, 21.05°EKuldiga — 56.78°N, 21.86°EKuldiga — 57.26°N, 23.11°EKuldiga — 57.28°N, 25.41°EKuldiga — 56.85°N, 21.71°EKuldiga — 56.99°N, 21.77°EKuldiga — 56.87°N, 21.58°EKuldiga — 57.27°N, 21.98°EKuldiga — 56.46°N, 26.03°EKuldiga — 57.68°N, 24.89°EKuldiga — 57.22°N, 21.60°EKuldiga — 56.64°N, 22.79°EKuldiga — 56.51°N, 23.34°EKuldiga — 56.63°N, 20.85°EKuldiga — 56.91°N, 24.15°EKuldiga — 56.89°N, 21.20°EKuldiga — 56.64°N, 21.41°EKuanyinchiao — 28.00°N, 108.00°EKuanyinchiao — 27.60°N, 105.42°EKuanyinchiao — 28.08°N, 106.86°EKuanyinchiao — 31.00°N, 112.00°EKuanyinchiao — 28.36°N, 108.51°EKuanyinchiao — 28.23°N, 109.10°EKuanyinchiao — 30.71°N, 104.00°EWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 48.47°N, 64.32°WWhite Head — 46.88°N, 60.35°WWhite Head — 46.18°N, 59.82°WKuldiga — 55.92°N, 21.56°EKuldiga — 57.88°N, 24.37°EKuldiga — 57.80°N, 23.24°EKuldiga — 58.32°N, 22.39°ETommarp — 58.17°N, 13.53°ETommarp — 58.13°N, 13.77°ETommarp — 58.23°N, 15.73°ETommarp — 58.14°N, 13.74°ETommarp — 58.17°N, 13.79°EKosov — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKosov — 50.22°N, 14.53°EKosov — 50.08°N, 14.62°EWufeng — 33.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 107.00°EDon Braulio — 31.00°S, 69.00°WDon Braulio — 31.23°S, 68.53°WDon Braulio — 35.40°S, 68.30°WSkelgill — 54.38°N, 3.05°WEusebio Ayala — 25.38°S, 57.33°WEusebio Ayala — 25.40°S, 56.80°WWanyaoshu — 24.47°N, 98.65°EHirnant Limestone — 52.88°N, 3.55°WHirnant Limestone — 54.41°N, 2.93°WLangoyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangara — 60.00°N, 11.00°EZalesia — 50.77°N, 21.45°EWenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WKildare Limestone — 53.17°N, 6.75°WClemville — 48.18°N, 64.97°WAyala Sandstone — 25.38°S, 57.27°WTufs et calcaires de Rosan — 48.25°N, 4.22°WRibeira do Bracal — 40.00°N, 8.00°WUpper Second Bani — 30.00°N, 8.50°WCedarburg — 33.00°S, 19.00°ENancheng — 29.35°N, 102.72°E

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The named rock units Plectothyrella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plectothyrella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Plectothyrella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

377 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Plectothyrella, 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

44 references

Each of the 109 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. 32 further references are not listed. 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 Plectothyrella 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 Plectothyrella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plectothyrella 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. Temple 1965