Pliegatella genovefae

Pliegatella genovefae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PliegatellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiocene12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10.0–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.1 Mya6.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Pliegatella genovefae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

4 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.

Pliegatella genovefae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pliegatella genovefae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pliegatella genovefae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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 Pliegatella genovefae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows 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 itPliegatella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brimaud and Vachard 1986