Pseudoplacunopsis alpina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudoplacunopsisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Plicatulidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plicatulidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Plicatulidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 199.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 90 of 91 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 91 occurrencesEarly Jurassic206–205 Mya — about 5 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 5 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 5 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 5 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 5 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 5 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 5 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 5 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 5 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 5 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 5 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 5 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 5 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 5 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 5 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 5 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 5 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 5 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206.2 Mya199 Mya

91 occurrences of Pseudoplacunopsis alpina on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

91 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

8 formations

Kossen — 47.77°N, 13.80°EKossen — 47.66°N, 12.45°EKossen — 47.57°N, 11.77°EKossen — 47.75°N, 14.73°EKossen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EKossen — 47.55°N, 12.17°EKossen — 47.58°N, 12.57°EKossen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.00°N, 13.00°EKoessen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EWestbury — 50.97°N, 2.96°WWestbury — 51.17°N, 3.27°WGijon — 43.48°N, 5.27°WSedrina Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ELilstock — 51.17°N, 3.27°WDachstein Limestone — 47.29°N, 17.83°E

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The named rock units Pseudoplacunopsis alpina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudoplacunopsis alpina and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pseudoplacunopsis alpina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Pseudoplacunopsis alpina, 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

10 references

Each of the 91 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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Winkler 1859)