Periplacotrochus elongatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PeriplacotrochusPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Flabellidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Flabellidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Flabellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Flabellidae

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61.66 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya13 Mya

3 occurrences of Periplacotrochus elongatus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

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

1 formation

Port Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°E

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The named rock units Periplacotrochus elongatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Periplacotrochus elongatus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Periplacotrochus elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Periplacotrochus elongatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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

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No picture of Periplacotrochus elongatus 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 Periplacotrochus elongatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Periplacotrochus elongatus 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 itPeriplacotrochus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1864)