Plekonella multicostata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlekonellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Plekonella multicostata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
8 occurrences- Permian100%
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
3 formations
- AG4 Formation · Arthurton Group6
- Wether Hill Formation1
- "AG 4" Formation · Arthurton Group1
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The named rock units Plekonella multicostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plekonella multicostata and its relatives
PermianWhere Plekonella multicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Maorielasma callosum4 sites
- Marinurnula rugulata4 sites
- Mesopunctia microspinosa4 sites
- Simplicisulcus arthurtonensis4 sites
- Tomiopsis (Ingelarella) parallela4 sites
- Attenuatella incurvata3 sites
- Capillonia brevisulcus3 sites
- Lethamia collina3 sites
- Maitaia trechmanni3 sites
- Streblochondria orbiculata3 sites
- Filiconcha auricula2 sites
- Fletcherithyris2 sites
- Martinia martinezi2 sites
- Ambikella1 site
- Cancrinella1 site
- Cleiothyridina laqueata1 site
- Conocardium1 site
- Etheripecten striatura1 site
- Fenestellida1 site
- Glabrocingulum (Ananias) campbelli1 site
- Horridonia1 site
- Lamnaespina1 site
- Martiniopsis woodi1 site
- Myalina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Plekonella multicostata, 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
3 references- New occurrences of brachiopod and bivalve species from the Arthurton Group of South Otago and Southland, New Zealand with comments on structure and stratigraphy4
- Permian brachiopods of New Zealand3
- New Zealand Permian brachiopod systematics, zonation, and paleoecology1
Each of the 8 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
Media content0
No picture of Plekonella multicostata 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 Plekonella multicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plekonella multicostata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlekonella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 1964