Plicatula ibo
No picture of Plicatula ibo 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 Plicatula ibo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Plicatula ibo 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Plicatula ibo and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Plicatula ibo and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Anofia aro2 sites
- Astarte awensis2 sites
- Pseudocucullaea lens2 sites
- Trigonarca angolensis2 sites
- Veniella undata2 sites
- Agelasina plenodonta1 site
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) andersoni1 site
- Austrocardium1 site
- Baluchicardia1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Cardium subperobliquum1 site
- Cataceramus bantu1 site
- Dozyia lenticularis1 site
- Freiastarte1 site
- Helicaulax latealata1 site
- Inoceramus (Cordiceramus)1 site
- Inoceramus (Endocostea)1 site
- Legumen ellipticum1 site
- Liopistha1 site
- Malletia1 site
- Mesocallista1 site
- Mulinoides1 site
- Phacoides1 site
- Profragum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plicatula ibo, 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- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca (Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda) from Nigeria1
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 content0
No picture of Plicatula ibo 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 Plicatula ibo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plicatula ibo 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.
Keep going
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. Reyment 1955