Plocoscyphia maaki
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlocoscyphiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Plocoscyphia maaki on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Plocoscyphia maaki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plocoscyphia maaki and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Plocoscyphia maaki and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Callicylix eocenicus1 site
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri1 site
- Pachycalymma subglobosa1 site
- Pachycothon giganteum1 site
- Phymatella intumescens1 site
- Phymatella spinosa1 site
- Plectascus clathratus1 site
- Thecosiphonia ramosa1 site
- Thecosiphonia torgeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Plocoscyphia maaki, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Plocoscyphia maaki was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plocoscyphia maaki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itPlocoscyphia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrammen 1912