Plerophyllum australe
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlerophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 266.9 Mya.
7 occurrences of Plerophyllum australe 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
7 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
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The named rock units Plerophyllum australe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plerophyllum australe and its relatives
PermianWhere Plerophyllum australe and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Cimmeriella foordi3 sites
- Cleiothyridina macleayana3 sites
- Evactinostella crucialis3 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti3 sites
- Orthotetes3 sites
- Quadrospira hardmani3 sites
- Spirelytha fredericksi3 sites
- Amplexus pustulosus2 sites
- Callytharrella callytharrensis2 sites
- Costatumulus irwinensis2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Myodelthyrium dickinsi2 sites
- Plerophyllum sulcatum2 sites
- Rhombopora tenuis2 sites
- Taeniothaerus subquadratus2 sites
- Bellerophon formani1 site
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis1 site
- Bradyphyllum bellicostatum1 site
- Calceolispongia hindei1 site
- Calophyllum baytuganense1 site
- Cladochonus nicholsoni1 site
- Composita subtilita1 site
- Conocardium1 site
- Crassispirifer kimberleyensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Plerophyllum australe, 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
5 references- Descriptions of Carboniferous fossils from the Gascoyne District, Western Australia, collected by Mr. A. Gibb Maitland, government geologist2
- Notes on the palaeontology of Western Australia 2. Corals and Polyzoa2
- Tetracoralla1
- Western Australian Carboniferous fossils, chiefly from Mount Marmion, Lennard River, West Kimberley1
- Descriptions of Carboniferous fossils from the Irwin River, collected by Mr. C. F. V. Jackson, late Assistant Government Geologist1
Each of the 7 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 Plerophyllum australe 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 Plerophyllum australe, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plerophyllum australe 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.
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What may have been alongside itPlerophyllum through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinde 1890