Pliomerellus
No picture of Pliomerellus 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 Pliomerellus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrilobitaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Pliomerellus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
- Voskresenka Formation · Batun Group9
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The named rock units Pliomerellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pliomerellus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pliomerellus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Bathyurellus5 sites
- Ceraurinella frequens5 sites
- Glaphurus5 sites
- Kolymella5 sites
- Carolinites4 sites
- Phorocephala4 sites
- Pliomera fisheri4 sites
- Raymondaspis4 sites
- Archaeorthis altaica3 sites
- Atelelasma3 sites
- Eoplacognathus pseudoplanus2 sites
- Expansograptus2 sites
- Idiostophia costata2 sites
- Idiostrophia costata2 sites
- Periodon aculeatus2 sites
- Protopanderodus rectus2 sites
- Scolopodus giganteus2 sites
- Trondorthis sibirica2 sites
- Acodus1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Cooperognathus sp.1 site
- Drepanoistodus1 site
- Eccoptochile1 site
- Eorobergia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pliomerellus, 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- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai5
- The new Ordovician stage standard as applied to the stratigraphic units of the western Altai–Sayan Folded Area4
Each of the 9 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 Pliomerellus 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 Pliomerellus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliomerellus 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.
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What may have been alongside itTrilobita through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chugaeva 1964