Plectropterna angusta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectropternaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 8.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Plectropterna angusta on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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- Early Jurassic100%
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
- Portland Formation · Agawam Group1
- Turners Falls Formation · Meriden Group1
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The named rock units Plectropterna angusta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plectropterna angusta and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Plectropterna angusta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Anomoepus lacertoideus2 sites
- Anomoepus major2 sites
- Anomoepus scambus2 sites
- Argoides minimus2 sites
- Batrachopus2 sites
- Batrachopus bellus2 sites
- Batrachopus deweyi2 sites
- Batrachopus gracilis2 sites
- Bisulcus undulatus2 sites
- Coniferophyta2 sites
- Cunicularius2 sites
- Eubrontes fieldi2 sites
- Eubrontes lyellii2 sites
- Eubrontes minusculus2 sites
- Eubrontes sillimani2 sites
- Grallator cursorius2 sites
- Grallator tenuis2 sites
- Grallator tuberosus2 sites
- Helcura caudata2 sites
- Herpystezoum2 sites
- Platypterna concamerata2 sites
- Platypterna digitigrada2 sites
- Plectropterna gracilis2 sites
- Plectropterna lineans2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plectropterna angusta, 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
2 references- Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College1
- Hitchcock, 18581
Each 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. 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 Plectropterna angusta 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 Plectropterna angusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plectropterna angusta 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 itPlectropterna through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hitchcock 1858)