Plicatula flattersi

Plicatula flattersi

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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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 7 of 7 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89.8 Mya72.2 Mya94.5 Mya65.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Plicatula flattersi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

7 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

5 formations

Celendin — 5.48°S, 78.52°WMatulla — 29.65°N, 33.13°Eupper Abu Roash — 30.05°N, 31.07°EMungo River — 4.52°N, 9.51°EAwgu Limestone — 6.08°N, 7.47°E

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The named rock units Plicatula flattersi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plicatula flattersi and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Plicatula flattersi, 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

Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Plicatula flattersi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlicatula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coquand 1862