Plicatolina kindlei

Plicatolina kindlei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlicatolinaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Olenidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 4.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 491 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491.5 Mya486.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Plicatolina kindlei on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

2 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

1 formation

Siyangshan — 28.85°N, 118.65°ESiyangshan — 28.82°N, 118.60°E

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

Plicatolina kindlei and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Plicatolina kindlei and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Plicatolina kindlei, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 2 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

Media content1

Picture of Plicatolina kindlei

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Plicatolina kindlei 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 itPlicatolina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shaw 1951