Plectotrophia imparicostata
No picture of Plectotrophia imparicostata 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 Plectotrophia imparicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectotrophiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Plectotrophia imparicostata 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
7 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Plectotrophia imparicostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plectotrophia imparicostata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Plectotrophia imparicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Billingsella costata5 sites
- Palaeostrophia5 sites
- Billingsella4 sites
- Acrotretidae1 site
- Callograptus1 site
- Dendrograptus1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Galinella1 site
- Guoleella lata1 site
- Hyolithida1 site
- Obolidae1 site
- Trilobita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Plectotrophia imparicostata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 7 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 Plectotrophia imparicostata 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 Plectotrophia imparicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plectotrophia imparicostata 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 itPlectotrophia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhan et al. 2010