Plecteuloma strix
No picture of Plecteuloma strix 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 Plecteuloma strix, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlecteulomaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Eulomidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 494.2 Mya and 491 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Plecteuloma strix on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Plecteuloma strix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plecteuloma strix and its relatives
CambrianWhere Plecteuloma strix and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Caznaia3 sites
- Hapsidocare3 sites
- Koldinioidia cylindrica3 sites
- Pseudagnostus3 sites
- Pseudagnostus clarki patulus3 sites
- Sigmakainella3 sites
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Ceronocare1 site
- Connagnostus1 site
- Hapsidocare lilyensis1 site
- Lotosoides1 site
- Mendosina1 site
- Neoagnostus1 site
- Pagodia1 site
- Prosaukia1 site
- Rhaptagnostus elix1 site
- Wuhuia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plecteuloma strix, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician trilobites from the Burke River Structural Belt, western Queensland, Australia3
- Late Cambrian trilobites from the Chatsworth Limestone, western Queensland1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plecteuloma strix 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 Plecteuloma strix, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plecteuloma strix 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 itPlecteuloma through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shergold 1975)