Glomerula plexus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlomerulaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Glomerula plexus 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Glomerula plexus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glomerula plexus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Glomerula plexus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Amphiura plana1 site
- Bourgueticrinus1 site
- Dorsoserpula1 site
- Elea subhexagona1 site
- Eutrephoceras1 site
- Lewesiceras1 site
- Meliceritites acutissima1 site
- Meliceritites upohlavyensis1 site
- Micraster leskei1 site
- Moltkia1 site
- Neomicrorbis1 site
- Neovermilia1 site
- Ophiacantha striata1 site
- Ophiocoma senonensis1 site
- Ophioderma substriatum1 site
- Ophioglypha pulchra1 site
- Ophiomusium1 site
- Ophiomyxa curvata1 site
- Ophiosmilax alternatus1 site
- Ophiura serrata1 site
- Protulophila1 site
- Pyrgopolon1 site
- Pyrospongia1 site
- Reptomultelea acupunctata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Glomerula plexus, 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- Silicified sea life – Macrofauna and palaeoecology of the Neuburg Kieselerde Member (Cenomanian to Lower Turonian Wellheim Formation, Bavaria, southern Germany)1
- Late Turonian polychaete communities recorded in the hemipelagic sediments of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Teplice Formation, Ohře and Dresden districts)1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Glomerula plexus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Glomerula plexus 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 itGlomerula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1829)