Plectella uncinata
No picture of Plectella uncinata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Plectella uncinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 475.6 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Plectella uncinata 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
7 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Plectella uncinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plectella uncinata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Plectella uncinata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Panderina abscissa7 sites
- Angusticardinia recta6 sites
- Paurorthis resima6 sites
- Eoporambonites latus5 sites
- Hemiphragma priscum3 sites
- Megalaspides2 sites
- Ranorthis parvula2 sites
- Acrotreta subconica1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Angusticardinia striata1 site
- Antigonambonites1 site
- Apheoorthina daunus1 site
- Cybele1 site
- Dianulites helenae1 site
- Esthoniopora lessnikowae1 site
- Europeites lamanskyi1 site
- Evropeites1 site
- Krattaspis popovi1 site
- Krattaspis viridatus1 site
- Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) estonica1 site
- Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) leuchtenbergi1 site
- Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) norvegica1 site
- Niobe (Niobella) imparilimbata1 site
- Ottenbyaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Plectella uncinata, 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
4 references- Ordovician (Arenig-Caradoc) syntrophiidine brachiopods from the east Baltic region3
- Early Ordovician Bryozoans from North - Western Russia2
- Uppermost Cambrian and Lower Ordovician in northwestern Russia: sequence stratigraphy, sea level changes and bio-events1
- Über Plectamboniten1
Each of the 7 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 Plectella uncinata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Plectella uncinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plectella uncinata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlectella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pander 1830)