Plectoglossa

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlossellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 440.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 11 of 12 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 12 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469.4 Mya445.2 Mya471.9 Mya439.9 Mya

12 occurrences of Plectoglossa 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

12 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

8 formations

Xiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WCedarburg — 33.00°S, 19.00°EHuangnekang — 30.98°N, 113.11°ETourmakeady — 53.69°N, 9.37°WBardahessiagh — 54.60°N, 6.88°WMiaopo — 33.00°N, 111.00°E

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

Plectoglossa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Plectoglossa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

291 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Plectoglossa, 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

9 references

Each of the 12 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 Plectoglossa 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 Plectoglossa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plectoglossa 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.

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What may have been alongside itGlossellinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956