Plectonotus laticarinata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectonotusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Plectonotidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Plectonotidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Plectonotidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Plectonotus laticarinata on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Gydo Formation · Bokkeveld Group4
- Voorstehoek Formation · Bokkeveld Group1
- Gamka Formation · Bokkeveld Group1
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The named rock units Plectonotus laticarinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plectonotus laticarinata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Plectonotus laticarinata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Australospirifer6 sites
- Nuculites6 sites
- Anchiopella5 sites
- Australocoelia5 sites
- Burmeisteria5 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Palaeoneilo5 sites
- Tentaculites5 sites
- Conularia4 sites
- Grammysia4 sites
- Metacryphaeus (Metacryphaeus) caffer4 sites
- Nuculana4 sites
- Orthoceras4 sites
- Pragozyga zwartbergense4 sites
- Schellwienella4 sites
- Actinopteria3 sites
- Ambocoelia3 sites
- Asterozoa3 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Burmeisteria (Digonus) noticus3 sites
- Ctenodonta3 sites
- Hyolithes3 sites
- Notiochonetes3 sites
- Ophiocrinus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Plectonotus laticarinata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 Plectonotus laticarinata 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 Plectonotus laticarinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plectonotus laticarinata 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 itPlectonotus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Knod 1908)