Pyreneplax sandersi
No picture of Pyreneplax sandersi 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 Pyreneplax sandersi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PyreneplaxPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pyreneplax sandersi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pyreneplax sandersi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pyreneplax sandersi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pyreneplax sandersi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Acantholambrus baumi1 site
- Agaronia alabamensis1 site
- Agnocardia claibornense1 site
- Albunea hahnae1 site
- Alectryonia ludoviciana1 site
- Altrix1 site
- Arcoperna1 site
- Athleta1 site
- Atrina1 site
- Aturia (Brazaturia)1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Callista1 site
- Callista (Callista) perovata1 site
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta1 site
- Caricella1 site
- Caricella pyruloides1 site
- Chama monroensis1 site
- Cheilea1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Chlamys wahtubbeana1 site
- Clavilithes1 site
- Conus smithvillensis1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Crassatella texalta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pyreneplax sandersi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pyreneplax sandersi 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 Pyreneplax sandersi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pyreneplax sandersi 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 itPyreneplax through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blow and Manning 1997)