Pleurifera
Searched as Pleurifera harpa harpa. The Paleobiology Database treats Pleurifera as the accepted name.
No picture of Pleurifera was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pleurifera itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleurifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PodocopidaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 182.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Pleurifera on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
6 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pleurifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pleurifera and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Pleurifera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Ammodiscus incertus2 sites
- Bairdia molesta2 sites
- Bairdia rostrata2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Echinodermata2 sites
- Gammacythere2 sites
- Gramannicythere2 sites
- Holothuroidea2 sites
- Ichtyolaria2 sites
- Krausella2 sites
- Monoceratina2 sites
- Ogmoconchella2 sites
- Ophthalmidium2 sites
- Polycope cerasia2 sites
- Polycope cincinnata2 sites
- Polycope pelta2 sites
- Ammodiscus1 site
- Ammonoidea1 site
- Annulina metensis1 site
- Bairdia clio1 site
- Belemnitida1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bythoceratina1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pleurifera, 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
2 references- Rapid warming and ostracods mass extinction at the Lower Toarcian (Jurassic) of central Spain4
- Extinction pattern of marine Ostracoda aross the Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary in the Cordillera Ibérica, NE Spain: Causes and consequences2
Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pleurifera was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pleurifera itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleurifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleurifera was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itPodocopida through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.