Plectogyra

Plectogyra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EndothyrinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 335.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 38 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 36 of 38 occurrencesCarboniferous383–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences363–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 8 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 11 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 11 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358.86 Mya335.4 Mya383 Mya322 Mya

38 occurrences of Plectogyra on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

38 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

6 formations

Second Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WWhite Pine Shale — 39.25°N, 114.93°WTunnel Mountain — 50.48°N, 114.71°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WToc Tat — 22.23°N, 106.18°EEtroeungt — 50.73°N, 6.18°E

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

Plectogyra and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Plectogyra and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Plectogyra, 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

5 references

Each of the 38 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 Plectogyra

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows 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 itEndothyrinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zeller 1950