Pleuronea
Pareyn · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TubuliporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 52 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
33 occurrences of Pleuronea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
33 occurrences- Late Cretaceous3%
- Paleocene27%
- Eocene6%
- Oligocene21%
- Miocene42%
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
6 formations
- Clayton Formation · Midway Group9
- Marianna Limestone Formation4
- Red Bluff Formation2
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group2
- Prairie Bluff Formation · Selma Group1
- Byram Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Pleuronea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pleuronea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pleuronea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
378 taxa- Metrarabdotos14 sites
- Reteporella14 sites
- Cellaria fistulosa13 sites
- Ybselosoecia13 sites
- Cellepora12 sites
- Crisia12 sites
- Disporella12 sites
- Hornera12 sites
- Smittina cervicornis12 sites
- Escharella11 sites
- Tervia11 sites
- Umbonula11 sites
- Hippopleurifera sedgwicki10 sites
- Oncousoecia10 sites
- Schedocleidochasma incisa10 sites
- Antropora9 sites
- Hornera frondiculata9 sites
- Mecynoecia9 sites
- Rhynchozoon monoceros9 sites
- Schizomavella9 sites
- Schizoporella tetragona9 sites
- Schizostomella dubia9 sites
- Umbonula macrocheila9 sites
- Myriapora truncata8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Pleuronea, 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
5 references- A bryozoan and foraminifera association from the Miocene of Podbrezice, south Moravia (Czech Republic): an environmental history12
- Fabric of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Marine Macrofaunal Transition at Braggs, Alabama10
- North American early Tertiary Bryozoa9
- New Middle Miocene Bryozoa from Gârbova de Sus (Romania) and their relationship to the sedimentary environment1
- Coral microbialite environment in a Middle Miocene reef of Hungary1
Each of the 33 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. 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
Media content1
Picture of Pleuronea
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Pareyn
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pleuronea 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTubuliporidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1920