Plocoscyphia pertusa
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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 78 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Plocoscyphia pertusa on record, most of them in the Early 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
- Woburn Sand Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
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The named rock units Plocoscyphia pertusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plocoscyphia pertusa and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Plocoscyphia pertusa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Aniabrochus comptonensis1 site
- Arenaciarcula fittoni1 site
- Barroisia1 site
- cf. Lamellirhynchia caseyi1 site
- Cyclothyris latissima1 site
- Cyrtothyris cantabridgiensis1 site
- Cyrtothyris cyrta1 site
- Cyrtothyris dallasi1 site
- Cyrtothyris seeleyi1 site
- Cyrtothyris uniplicata1 site
- Gemmarcula1 site
- Hyposalenia1 site
- Kingena1 site
- Oblongarcula oblonga1 site
- Ornithella1 site
- Peronidella1 site
- Platythyris minor1 site
- Praelongithyris lankesteri1 site
- Praelongithyris praelongiforma1 site
- Raphidonema porcatum1 site
- Rhombothyris conica1 site
- Rhombothyris extensa1 site
- Rhombothyris microtrema1 site
- Rhynchonella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Plocoscyphia pertusa, 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- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)2
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Plocoscyphia pertusa 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 Plocoscyphia pertusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plocoscyphia pertusa 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 itPlocoscyphia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geinitz 1843)