Plethopeltoides

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 10 of 13 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 3 of 13 occurrencesOrdovician505–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 2 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 3 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499.5 Mya486.4 Mya505 Mya476.6 Mya

13 occurrences of Plethopeltoides 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

13 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

5 formations

Gorbiyachin — 68.00°N, 88.82°EGorbiyachin — 67.47°N, 87.82°EGorbiyachin — 68.30°N, 88.53°EGorbiyachin — 68.12°N, 86.53°EGorbiyachin — 68.00°N, 88.53°EUst-Maya — 61.78°N, 113.02°EUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 116.00°EUst’Kut — 61.00°N, 114.00°ENyaiskii — 68.00°N, 88.00°EChukukska — 68.53°N, 112.10°E

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

Plethopeltoides and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Plethopeltoides and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Plethopeltoides, 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

4 references

Each of the 13 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

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No picture of Plethopeltoides 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 Plethopeltoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plethopeltoides 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 itPlethopeltidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Khramova 1968