Plagiostoma punctata

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlagiostomaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Limidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Limidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Limidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 184.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 18 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 18 occurrencesEarly Jurassic238–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 2 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 2 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences233.6 Mya192.9 Mya238 Mya183 Mya

18 occurrences of Plagiostoma punctata on record, most of them in the Early 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

18 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

9 formations

Bayirkoy — 40.30°N, 29.99°EOzirovo — 43.06°N, 23.14°EOzirovo — 43.05°N, 23.03°EKossen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EWhite Lias — 51.12°N, 2.73°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.71°WCape Stewart — 70.45°N, 22.65°WCassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°EContorta — 45.68°N, 10.51°E

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The named rock units Plagiostoma punctata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plagiostoma punctata and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Plagiostoma punctata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

574 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Plagiostoma punctata, 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

10 references

Each of the 18 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 Plagiostoma punctata 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 Plagiostoma punctata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plagiostoma punctata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itPlagiostoma through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1818)