Pleuromeris auroraensis
No picture of Pleuromeris auroraensis 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 Pleuromeris auroraensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleuromerisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pleuromeris
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Pleuromeris
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pleuromeris
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pleuromeris auroraensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene75%
- Pleistocene25%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pleuromeris auroraensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pleuromeris auroraensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Pleuromeris auroraensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Anadara aequicostata4 sites
- Astarte concentrica4 sites
- Caryocorbula4 sites
- Crassinella4 sites
- Crassinella lunulata4 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata4 sites
- Diodora4 sites
- Ensis directus4 sites
- Glycymeris sloani4 sites
- Gouldia4 sites
- Marevalvata tricarinata4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima4 sites
- Nuculana acuta4 sites
- Olivella mutica4 sites
- Pleuromeris decemcostata4 sites
- Turbonilla4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Abra aequalis3 sites
- Angulus agilis3 sites
- Astarte3 sites
- Conradostrea lawrencei3 sites
- Crenella decussata3 sites
- Didianema3 sites
- Diplodonta acclinis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pleuromeris auroraensis, 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
1 referenceEach 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. 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 Pleuromeris auroraensis 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 Pleuromeris auroraensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleuromeris auroraensis 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 itPleuromeris through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ward and Blackwelder 1987