Multicostella plena
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MulticostellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Multicostella plena on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
- Confinis Formation · Barr Group1
- Stinchar Formation1
- Arline Formation1
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The named rock units Multicostella plena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Multicostella plena and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Multicostella plena and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata2 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus2 sites
- Amphilichas1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Bartoninus dispersus1 site
- Bimuria buttsi1 site
- Bimuria superba1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Colaptomena macallumi1 site
- Colaptomena obesa1 site
- Cybeloides1 site
- Cyrtonotella subfissicosta1 site
- Dactylogonia1 site
- Dactylogonia geniculata1 site
- Eremotoechia cloudi1 site
- Gacella ponderosa1 site
- Girvanella problematica1 site
- Glyptambonites glyptus1 site
- Hesperorthis australis1 site
- Hesperorthis australis exitis1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Isophragma extensum1 site
- Isophragma extensum tricostatum1 site
- Isophragma subabbreviatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Multicostella plena, 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- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda2
- Chazyan and related brachiopods1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Multicostella plena 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 Multicostella plena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Multicostella plena 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMulticostella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956