Placoparia (Placoparia)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlacopariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Placoparia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 100 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 461 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
14 occurrences of Placoparia (Placoparia) 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
14 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
7 formations
- Llanfallteg Formation5
- Rio-Schiefer Formation4
- Arroyo del Acebron Shales Formation1
- Dobrotivá Formation1
- La Bastida Shales Formation1
- Navas de Estena Formation1
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The named rock units Placoparia (Placoparia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Placoparia (Placoparia) and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Placoparia (Placoparia) and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Ectillaenus7 sites
- Didymograptellus bifidus5 sites
- Stapeleyella inconstans5 sites
- Barrandia homfrayi4 sites
- Ormathops4 sites
- Pterygometopus (Pterygometopus) guadalupensis4 sites
- Retamaspis melendezi3 sites
- Selenopeltis buchi3 sites
- Dionide2 sites
- Gastropolus2 sites
- Microparia (Microparia)2 sites
- Nobiliasaphus2 sites
- Novakella2 sites
- Pricyclopyge2 sites
- Sivorthis noctilio2 sites
- Ampyx1 site
- Anatifopsis bohemica1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Aulograptus1 site
- Bathycheilus castilianus1 site
- Benignites primula1 site
- Cheirocrinus1 site
- Cnemidopyge tenuis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Placoparia (Placoparia), 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
6 references- Ordovician (Llanvirn) Trilobites from SW Wales5
- Phacopina und Cheirurina (Trilobita) aus dem Ordovizium von Spanien5
- Morphological diversity and disparity in trilobite cephala and the evolution of trilobite enrolment throughout the Palaeozoic1
- Complementary description of the Middle Ordovician trilobite associations1
- Precisiones sobre los trilobites del arroyo del Acebron, Ventas con Pena Aguilera, Toledo1
- Bioestratigrafia de las pizarras ordovicicas en la Sierra de Tamames, Sinclinal de Sequeros-Ahigal de los Aceiteros, Provincia de Salamanca1
Each of the 14 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 Placoparia (Placoparia) 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 Placoparia (Placoparia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Placoparia (Placoparia) 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 itPlacoparia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hammann 1971