Pliomerina austrina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliomerinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pliomeridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pliomerina austrina 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
2 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
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The named rock units Pliomerina austrina 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.
Pliomerina austrina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pliomerina austrina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Asaphidae2 sites
- Parkesolithus2 sites
- Amphilichas1 site
- Belodina compressa1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Catazyga1 site
- Doleroides1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Encrinuraspis1 site
- Eobelodina fornicala1 site
- Erismodus1 site
- Falodus sp.1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Heliolitidae1 site
- Kloedenia1 site
- Leptellina1 site
- Oistodus1 site
- Onycopyge1 site
- Ozarkodina1 site
- Panderodus1 site
- Phragmodus1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Sowerbyites1 site
- Sphaerocoryphe1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pliomerina austrina, 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
1 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Pliomerina austrina 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 Pliomerina austrina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliomerina austrina was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPliomerina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Webby 1971