Plasmophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LykophyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 11 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 11 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 9 of 11 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 1 occurrence417–415 Mya — about 1 occurrence415–413 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–381 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432.9 Mya387.95 Mya444 Mya381 Mya

11 occurrences of Plasmophyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

11 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

5 formations

Ukalunda — 20.00°S, 147.00°ECombe Martin Slates — 51.20°N, 4.03°WPoint Hibbs — 42.62°S, 145.25°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°E

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The named rock units Plasmophyllum 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.

Plasmophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Plasmophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Plasmophyllum, 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 11 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 Plasmophyllum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plasmophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dybowski 1873