Macropleura

Macropleura

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EospiriferinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 433.5 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 26 occurrencesSilurian — about 14 of 26 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 12 of 26 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 1 occurrence418–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 3 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433.5 Mya413.02 Mya444 Mya392 Mya

26 occurrences of Macropleura on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

26 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

11 formations

Beijuntang — 23.35°N, 109.33°EBeijuntang — 22.00°N, 110.00°ERacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WCanon de Caballeros — 23.75°N, 99.26°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°ELianghetang — 23.35°N, 109.33°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 50.08°N, 14.47°EIrondequoit Limestone — 43.21°N, 77.58°WLa Vieille — 47.83°N, 65.50°WGascons — 47.83°N, 65.50°WGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EBack Bay — 45.05°N, 66.87°W

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The named rock units Macropleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macropleura and its relatives

Silurian

Where Macropleura and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

482 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Macropleura, 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

12 references

Each of the 26 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

Media content2

Picture of Macropleura

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boucot 1963