Pleurocystites strimplei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleurocystitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Pleurocystites strimplei 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group7
- Cummingsville Formation1
- Prosser Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Pleurocystites strimplei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pleurocystites strimplei and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pleurocystites strimplei and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Carabocrinus8 sites
- Cupulocrinus8 sites
- Edrioaster bigsbyi8 sites
- Glyptocrinus8 sites
- Hybocrinus conicus8 sites
- Pycnocrinus7 sites
- Cremacrinus guttenbergensis6 sites
- Cremacrinus5 sites
- Myeinocystites crossmani5 sites
- Quienquecaudex springeri5 sites
- Tanaocystis5 sites
- <Cincinnaticrinid>4 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus ornatus4 sites
- Cyclocystoides halli4 sites
- Dendrocrinus4 sites
- Glyptocystites4 sites
- Neobothriocidaris4 sites
- Ptychocrinus4 sites
- <Archaeocrinid>3 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus3 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus charltoni3 sites
- Amygdalocystites3 sites
- Calceocrinus3 sites
- Carabocrinus radiatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pleurocystites strimplei, 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- A New Pleurocystitid Rhombiferan Echinoderm from the Middle Ordovician Galena Group of Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota8
- Paleoecology of Echinoderm Assemblages from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) Dunleith Formation of Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota1
Each of the 9 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 Pleurocystites strimplei 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 Pleurocystites strimplei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleurocystites strimplei 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 itPleurocystites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brower 1999