Plicatolina scalpta
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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 least 450 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
27 occurrences of Plicatolina scalpta on record. 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
27 occurrences- Cambrian72%
- Ordovician28%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Plicatolina scalpta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Parabolina (Neoparabolina) frequens16 sites
- Parabolinella coelatifrons13 sites
- Angelina hyeronimi12 sites
- Gymnagnostus12 sites
- Micragnostus vilonii12 sites
- Lotagnostus11 sites
- Parabolinella9 sites
- Machairagnostus tmetus7 sites
- Leptoplastides ulrichi5 sites
- Strictagnostus5 sites
- Asaphellus riojanus4 sites
- Gymnagnostus perinflatus4 sites
- Onychopyge riojana4 sites
- Parabolina argentina4 sites
- Parabolinella argentinensis4 sites
- Machairagnostus corrugatus3 sites
- Micragnostus calviformis3 sites
- Onychopyge3 sites
- Pseudoharpatagnostus tmetus3 sites
- Shumardia erquensis3 sites
- Angelina2 sites
- Bienvillia tetragonalis2 sites
- Bodenbenderia longifrons2 sites
- Conophrys2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Plicatolina scalpta, 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
6 references- Paleoecological dynamics of Furongian (Late Cambrian) trilobite-dominated communities from northwestern Argentina15
- Ordovician trilobites of Argentina7
- Trilobites de la formación Volcancito (Miembro Filo Azul, Cámbrico tardío) del sistema de Famatina, la Rioja, Argentina: Aspectos sistemáticos y paleoambientales2
- Biostratigraphic significance of the latest Cambrian-earliest Ordovician agnostoid trilobites from Northwestern Argentina1
- La transicion Cambrico-Ordovicico en la Formacion Volcancito (sierra de Famatina, La Rioja, Argentina)1
- El sistema ordovicico en Bolivia1
Each of the 27 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
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No picture of Plicatolina scalpta 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 Plicatolina scalpta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plicatolina scalpta 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.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harrington and Leanza 1957