Plumulites

Plumulites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MachaeridiaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Machaeridia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Machaeridia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Machaeridia
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 35 occurrencesOrdovician — about 26 of 35 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 6 of 35 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 35 occurrencesDevonian489–485 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences485–481 Mya — about 2 occurrences481–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences457–453 Mya — about 5 occurrences453–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–445 Mya — about 4 occurrences445–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences414–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence386–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–378 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences378–374 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences374–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477.1 Mya382.31 Mya489 Mya370 Mya

35 occurrences of Plumulites 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

35 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

25 formations

Tumugol — 37.17°N, 129.02°EJerrestad Shale — 57.78°N, 14.18°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EMotol — 50.08°N, 14.47°EMotol — 50.03°N, 14.42°EUpper Fezouata — 30.42°N, 5.85°WUpper Fezouata — 30.82°N, 5.82°WLough Shee Mudrocks — 54.00°N, 9.00°WFuruberget — 60.37°N, 10.42°ESularp Shale — 55.71°N, 13.32°ELetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°ECosterfield Siltstone — 34.08°S, 151.02°ELandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°EPizarras Guindo — 38.70°N, 3.77°WLower Ktaoua — 30.10°N, 6.13°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WRodanas — 41.70°N, 1.55°WJigunsan — 37.19°N, 128.74°ETabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.38°ESularp — 55.71°N, 13.32°ESredninskaya — 79.67°N, 96.52°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.38°EBedinan — 35.87°N, 40.70°EUpper Ktaoua — 30.77°N, 5.66°W

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The named rock units Plumulites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plumulites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Plumulites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

739 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Plumulites, 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

23 references

Each of the 35 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Plumulites

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Plumulites 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 itMachaeridia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1872