Pleiodon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IridinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Unionida
Time the record covers
At least 60 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Pleiodon on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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- Late Cretaceous14%
- Pliocene44%
- Pleistocene41%
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 Pleiodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Aspatharia4 sites
- bakeri bakeri4 sites
- bulimoides bulimoides4 sites
- Bulinus4 sites
- consobrina consobrina4 sites
- elliptica elliptica4 sites
- nilotica nilotica4 sites
- Ovata ovata4 sites
- Platymelania brevissima4 sites
- tuberculata tuberculata4 sites
- Mammalia3 sites
- Alcelaphini2 sites
- Bellamya2 sites
- Bellamya unicolor2 sites
- Eupera2 sites
- Gabbiela humerosa2 sites
- Hexaprotodon imaguncula2 sites
- Hylochoerus euilus2 sites
- Indet. Gastropoda-A2 sites
- Menelikia lyrocera2 sites
- Platymelania bifidicincta2 sites
- Pseudodiplodon sengae2 sites
- Bovidae1 site
- Bovini1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pleiodon, 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- New orchids from the flora Zambesiaca (Africa) region3
- Fossil Proboscidea from the Pliocene Lusso Beds of the Western Rift, Zaire2
- Probable Cerion (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Uppermost Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana1
- Climatic environment and air quality in the farrowing units of a pig house1
Each 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
Media content2
Picture of Pleiodon
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pleiodon spekii · OSUM:IZB:20901
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 itIridinidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1834