Plethospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HormotomidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 481.7 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesOrdovician — about 28 of 28 occurrencesOrdovician488–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 2 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence481.7 Mya450.2 Mya487.6 Mya448.9 Mya

28 occurrences of Plethospira on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

28 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

17 formations

Smithville — 37.30°N, 89.89°WSmithville — 37.35°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.35°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.16°N, 89.81°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 47.15°N, 110.22°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 97.74°WHoneycut — 31.02°N, 98.53°WShakopee — 45.05°N, 92.80°WShakopee — 44.50°N, 92.90°WBalclatchie — 55.23°N, 4.87°WFort Cassin — 44.24°N, 73.32°WGorman — 30.27°N, 97.74°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WPen-y-planeau Siltstone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WRoubidoux — 36.98°N, 91.50°WPadre — 31.83°N, 106.48°WFort Ann — 43.91°N, 73.42°WEmanuel — 18.33°S, 125.67°ECatoche — 50.72°N, 57.37°WFillmore — 39.22°N, 113.40°WCwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WAmadjuak — 63.75°N, 68.95°W

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

Plethospira and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Plethospira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

385 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Plethospira, 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

21 references

Each of the 28 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 Plethospira was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plethospira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)