Plectelasma

Plectelasma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DielasmatinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 64 of 64 occurrencesPermian291–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 7 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 8 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 7 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 6 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 6 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 6 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 4 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 4 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 4 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences274.4 Mya259.857 Mya290.8 Mya253.4 Mya

64 occurrences of Plectelasma on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

64 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

Bell Canyon — 31.92°N, 104.77°WBell Canyon — 31.77°N, 104.89°WBell Canyon — 31.80°N, 104.78°WBell Canyon — 31.95°N, 104.71°WBell Canyon — 32.01°N, 104.72°WBell Canyon — 31.26°N, 104.51°WGerster — 40.17°N, 114.83°WGerster — 40.50°N, 114.67°WGerster — 40.50°N, 114.83°WGerster — 40.08°N, 113.83°WGerster — 39.50°N, 115.25°WGerster — 40.42°N, 114.83°WCapitan — 32.12°N, 104.58°WCapitan — 32.00°N, 104.78°WCapitan — 32.17°N, 104.44°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.86°WSkinner Ranch — 30.26°N, 103.34°WSkinner Ranch — 30.20°N, 103.43°WWord — 30.41°N, 103.17°WHess — 30.39°N, 103.15°WLa Difunta — 26.34°N, 102.92°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WLas Delicias — 26.43°N, 102.88°W

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

Plectelasma and its relatives

Permian

Where Plectelasma and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

530 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Plectelasma, 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

6 references

Each of the 64 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 Plectelasma

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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What may have been alongside itDielasmatinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1969