Pliophloea
No picture of Pliophloea 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 Pliophloea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CribrilinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pliophloea on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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.
Pliophloea and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Pliophloea and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Aechmella2 sites
- Callopora2 sites
- Columnotheca2 sites
- Ellisina2 sites
- Floridina2 sites
- Membranipora2 sites
- Membraniporidra2 sites
- Onychocella2 sites
- Pachythecella2 sites
- Pithodella2 sites
- Porina2 sites
- Puncturiella2 sites
- Semiescharinella2 sites
- Smittipora2 sites
- Allantopora1 site
- Amphiblestrella1 site
- Anornithopora1 site
- Aplousina1 site
- Balantiostoma1 site
- Cellepora1 site
- Coscinopleura1 site
- Crassicellepora1 site
- Cryptostomella1 site
- Fissuricella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pliophloea, 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- Relation between currents and the growth of Paleocene reef-mounds2
- Functional morphology and biofacies distribution of cheilostome Bryozoa in the Danian Stage (Paleocene)of southern Scandinavia2
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pliophloea 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 Pliophloea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliophloea 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 itCribrilinidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb and Horn 1862