Plectospira ferita
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Retziidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Retziidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Retziidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 31 million years on record.
The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 385.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Plectospira ferita 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Plectospira ferita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plectospira ferita and its relatives
DevonianWhere Plectospira ferita and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
236 taxa- Athyris4 sites
- Alveolites3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Gypidula3 sites
- Leptodontella3 sites
- Nucleospira3 sites
- Schizophoria3 sites
- Xystostrophia umbraculum3 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Calceola sandalina2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cyrtina2 sites
- Devonaria2 sites
- Fistulipora2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Kayseria2 sites
- Petrocrania2 sites
- Polypora2 sites
- Radiomena2 sites
- Reticulariopsis2 sites
- Semitextularia2 sites
- Septalaria2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plectospira ferita, 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- Zur Fossilführung des Ohler Schiefers (Devon: Eifelium) im West-Sauerland (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Fossils of the Ohler Schiefer (Devonian, Eifelian) in the western Sauerland (Eastern Rhenish Massif)]1
- Middle Devonian brachiopods from Celechovice, Moravia1
- Eifelian brachiopods from Padaukpin, Northern Shan States, Burma1
- The Devonian of California1
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 Plectospira ferita 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 Plectospira ferita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plectospira ferita was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPlectospira through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Buch 1835)