Pleuronectites difformis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PleuronectitesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 2.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 244.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic249–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247 Mya244.4 Mya249.1 Mya241 Mya

6 occurrences of Pleuronectites difformis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

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

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°EJianghe — 37.49°N, 99.38°E

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

Pleuronectites difformis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Pleuronectites difformis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pleuronectites difformis, 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

3 references

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. 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 content0

No picture of Pleuronectites difformis 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 Pleuronectites difformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pleuronectites difformis 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 itPleuronectites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chen 1976