Pliothyrina

Pliothyrina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TerebratulinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 51 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 51 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–8.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–6.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.1–4.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.8–3.6 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.6–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–1.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences27.3 Mya2.58 Mya38.4 Mya1.1 Mya

51 occurrences of Pliothyrina on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

51 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.

Found in

9 formations

Coralline Crag — 52.08°N, 1.50°EDoberg — 52.18°N, 8.60°EDoberg — 52.32°N, 8.15°ERed Crag — 52.04°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.05°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.27°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EPinczow — 50.54°N, 21.54°ESilberberg — 51.92°N, 11.58°EMarnes du Bosq d'Aubigny — 49.38°N, 1.00°WDiest — 51.22°N, 4.46°EKattendijk — 51.31°N, 4.26°EGrafenberg — 51.26°N, 6.95°E

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The named rock units Pliothyrina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pliothyrina and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Pliothyrina and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Pliothyrina, 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

9 references

Each of the 51 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

Media content1

Picture of Pliothyrina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pliothyrina 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 itTerebratulinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.