Plexituba

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AulocystidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesDevonian388–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 1 occurrence382–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–380 Mya — about 1 occurrence380–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence379–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence379–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388.4 Mya371.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Plexituba on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

10 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

3 formations

Ferques — 50.83°N, 1.77°EBeaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°EDawson Bay — 52.89°N, 101.06°W

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

Plexituba and its relatives

Devonian

Where Plexituba and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Plexituba, 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

Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Plexituba 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAulocystidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stainbrook 1946