Plesiowensus obconicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesiowensusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 3.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 425 Mya to 421.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
4 occurrences of Plesiowensus obconicus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Plesiowensus obconicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plesiowensus obconicus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Plesiowensus obconicus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Calymene2 sites
- Protochonetes ludloviensis2 sites
- Salopina lunata2 sites
- Acastella spinosa1 site
- Actinopteria1 site
- Allonema1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Beyrichia1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Boucotinskia elongata1 site
- Cardiola interrupta1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Cypricardinia1 site
- Dayia navicula1 site
- Densastroma1 site
- Encrinurus1 site
- Gerastos verrucosus1 site
- Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis1 site
- Gypidula galeata1 site
- Heliolites1 site
- Hesperorthis gotlandica1 site
- Holcospirifer insignis1 site
- Homoeospira baylei1 site
- Howellella elegans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plesiowensus obconicus, 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- British Ordovician and Silurian Proetidae (Trilobita)2
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia1
- Benthic community organization in the Ludlow Series of the Welsh Borderland1
Each of the 4 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 Plesiowensus obconicus 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 Plesiowensus obconicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plesiowensus obconicus 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 itPlesiowensus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindstrom 1885)