Plectrella

No picture of Plectrella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Plectrella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychaspididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ptychaspididae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 490.2 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician490–490 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences490.7 Mya476.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Plectrella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

3 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

2 formations

Rabbitkettle — 64.59°N, 130.00°WShallow Bay — 49.83°N, 57.87°W

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The named rock units Plectrella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Plectrella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Plectrella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plectrella, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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

Media content0

No picture of Plectrella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Plectrella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plectrella 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 itPtychaspididae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ludvigsen and Westrop 1989