Plaesiomys proavita

Plaesiomys proavita

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlaesiomysPBDB
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 least 700 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 14 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.2 Mya – 449.5 Mya453.3 Mya442.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Plaesiomys proavita 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

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

6 formations

Scales Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScales Shale — 43.37°N, 92.00°WWelling — 34.51°N, 96.97°WWelling — 34.60°N, 96.59°WDubuque — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMannie — 35.50°N, 86.50°WFremont — 38.00°N, 105.00°WFernvale — 35.22°N, 87.01°W

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The named rock units Plaesiomys proavita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Plaesiomys proavita and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Plaesiomys proavita and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Plaesiomys proavita, 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

7 references

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

Media content1

Picture of Plaesiomys proavita

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No 3D scan of Plaesiomys proavita 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 itPlaesiomys through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Winchell and Schuchert 1892)