Placometra
No picture of Placometra 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 Placometra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PterocomidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Comatulida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Comatulida
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Comatulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Comatulida
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
10 occurrences of Placometra 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
10 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Placometra 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.
Placometra and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Placometra and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
239 taxa- Gauthieria pseudoradiata6 sites
- Ophiomusium granulosum6 sites
- Chomataster acules5 sites
- Lophidiaster pygmaeus5 sites
- Ophiura serrata5 sites
- Trichaster ornatus5 sites
- Applinocrinus cretaceus4 sites
- Cardiaster granulosus4 sites
- Dunnicrinus aequalis4 sites
- Goniasteridae4 sites
- Hemipneustes striatoradiatus4 sites
- Leymeriaster eluvialis4 sites
- Nucleopygus4 sites
- Oolopygus4 sites
- Amphorometra conoidea3 sites
- Astropectinidae3 sites
- Echinogalerus3 sites
- Hemiaster3 sites
- Hemiaster (Bolbaster) prunella3 sites
- Metopaster3 sites
- Nucleopygus scrobiculatus3 sites
- Ophiacantha danica3 sites
- Ophiomyxa jekerica3 sites
- Ophiothrix bongaertsi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Placometra, 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
3 references- Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 2: Crinoids6
- The echinoderms of the Rügen White Chalk (Maastrichtian, Germany)2
- Cretaceous Crinoidea (Comatulida and Roveacrinida) from England and France2
Each of the 10 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 Placometra 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 Placometra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Placometra 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPterocomidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jagt 1999