Glyptopleura

Glyptopleura

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphissitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 190 million years on record.

The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 16 of 22 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 22 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 22 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 22 occurrences356–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–342 Mya — about 2 occurrences342–335 Mya — about 7 occurrences335–327 Mya — about 2 occurrences327–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–306 Mya — about 1 occurrence306–299 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences299–292 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences292–284 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences284–277 Mya — about 2 occurrences277–270 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences263–256 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences256–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences342.9 Mya152.21 Mya356 Mya141 Mya

22 occurrences of Glyptopleura on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

22 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

13 formations

Redoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WSalem Limestone — 37.49°N, 85.34°WAmsden — 42.62°N, 108.69°WFayetteville — 36.08°N, 94.13°WChochal — 15.25°N, 90.21°WNaujoji Akmené — 54.42°N, 22.78°EChase — 38.27°N, 96.73°WWarsaw Limestone — 38.44°N, 90.20°WMorrison — 38.81°N, 108.32°WGlenn — 34.13°N, 97.15°WYellowpine — 35.65°N, 115.47°WGlen Eyrie — 38.89°N, 104.89°W

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The named rock units Glyptopleura 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.

Glyptopleura and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Glyptopleura and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

353 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Glyptopleura, 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

14 references

Each of the 22 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. 2 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 Glyptopleura

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Glyptopleura 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.

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What may have been alongside itAmphissitidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1910