Plicatula (Plicatula)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlicatulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Plicatula
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plicatula
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Plicatula
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 179 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 208 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 208 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 208 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 208 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 208 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 189 of 208 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 208 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 208 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 208 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 208 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences184–177 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–145 Mya — about 4 occurrences145–138 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–99 Mya — about 11 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 54 occurrences93–86 Mya — about 40 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 8 occurrences80–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–66 Mya — about 68 occurrences66–60 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–7.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences192.9 Mya13.82 Mya203 Mya8 Mya

208 occurrences of Plicatula (Plicatula) on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

208 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

38 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.73°N, 88.30°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.63°N, 88.22°WPrairie Bluff — 32.66°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.99°N, 85.92°WCorsicana Marl — 32.76°N, 96.28°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.25°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 30.19°N, 97.61°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.48°N, 98.23°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WCorsicana Marl — 29.48°N, 98.81°WCorsicana Marl — 29.41°N, 98.90°WCorsicana Marl — 29.35°N, 98.88°WCorsicana Marl — 29.18°N, 99.02°WCorsicana Marl — 29.57°N, 97.96°WAbu Qada — 28.65°N, 33.24°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 29.28°N, 34.72°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EPindiga — 9.97°N, 10.92°EPindiga — 10.28°N, 11.32°ECajamarca-Celendin — 5.48°S, 78.52°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WFahdene — 35.57°N, 8.09°EMatulla — 29.65°N, 33.13°EMatulla — 29.67°N, 32.95°EMatulla — 28.65°N, 33.24°EMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WMancos Shale — 34.77°N, 108.78°WThemed — 29.67°N, 34.50°EThemed — 30.38°N, 33.52°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMancos — 36.48°N, 108.55°WMancos — 36.80°N, 108.93°WWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°EHummar — 32.11°N, 36.17°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.48°N, 0.35°WSpilsby Sandstone — 53.25°N, 0.17°ESekule — 8.91°N, 12.00°ESekule — 9.73°N, 11.82°EWata — 28.65°N, 33.24°EWata — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAl Baniyah — 32.31°N, 20.99°EAzilé — 0.41°N, 9.50°EEscondido — 29.59°N, 98.07°W

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The named rock units Plicatula (Plicatula) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plicatula (Plicatula) and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Plicatula (Plicatula) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 153 sites for Plicatula (Plicatula), 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

41 references

Each of the 208 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. 29 further references are not listed. 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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Licence
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Specimen
Plicatula gibbosa · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:197534

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