Placunopsis fibrosa

No picture of Placunopsis fibrosa 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 Placunopsis fibrosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlacunopsisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Placunopsis
Life habit
epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Placunopsis
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Placunopsis
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 18 of 19 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 19 occurrencesLate Jurassic175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 3 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya154.8 Mya175.2 Mya148.7 Mya

19 occurrences of Placunopsis fibrosa on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

19 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

8 formations

Chari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EGoradongar — 23.50°N, 70.50°EWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WCalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EStrungulita — 45.43°N, 25.45°EUpper Trigonia Grit — 51.80°N, 1.88°WGryphite Grits — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Placunopsis fibrosa 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.

Placunopsis fibrosa and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Placunopsis fibrosa and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Placunopsis fibrosa, 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

8 references

Each of the 19 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 Placunopsis fibrosa 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 Placunopsis fibrosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Placunopsis fibrosa 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 itPlacunopsis through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laube 1867