Plagiophthalmus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniodromitidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Goniodromitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 10 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110.1 Mya83.6 Mya114 Mya71.4 Mya

10 occurrences of Plagiophthalmus on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

Gault — 51.94°N, 0.64°WMonk’s Bay Sandstone — 50.60°N, 1.32°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.90°WSandrock — 50.58°N, 1.28°WUpper Greensand — 50.79°N, 3.12°WChalk — 50.71°N, 3.08°W

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The named rock units Plagiophthalmus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plagiophthalmus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Plagiophthalmus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Plagiophthalmus, 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

5 references

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 content1

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Parabrotula plagiophthalmus · MCZ:Ich:62265

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

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 itGoniodromitidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bell 1863