Plekonella acuta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlekonellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
20 occurrences of Plekonella acuta on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
20 occurrences- Permian100%
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
8 formations
- Stephens Formation5
- Letham Formation · Productus Creek Group3
- Barfield Formation3
- AG4 Formation · Arthurton Group2
- Mangarewa Formation · Productus Creek Group2
- Peawaddy Formation2
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The named rock units Plekonella acuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plekonella acuta and its relatives
PermianWhere Plekonella acuta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
165 taxa- Aperispirifer nelsonensis5 sites
- Magniplicatina magniplica5 sites
- Aperispirifer lethamensis4 sites
- Marginalosia planata4 sites
- Peruvispira imbricata4 sites
- Capillonia semicircularis3 sites
- Ingelarella mantuanensis3 sites
- Maorielasma imperatum3 sites
- Mesopunctia macropustulosus3 sites
- Nuculopsis imperta3 sites
- Paucispinauria concava3 sites
- Platyteichum coniforme3 sites
- Saetosina multispinosa3 sites
- Wairakispirifer microstriatus3 sites
- Warthia micromphala3 sites
- Ambikella antesulcata2 sites
- Ambikella furca2 sites
- Aperispirifer wairakiensis2 sites
- Bransonia australe2 sites
- Calceolispongia cracowensis2 sites
- Cancellospirifer maxwelli2 sites
- Echinalosia maxwelli2 sites
- Etheripecten2 sites
- Etheripecten dawsonensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Plekonella acuta, 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
9 references- Permian brachiopods of New Zealand9
- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia2
- New occurrences of brachiopod and bivalve species from the Arthurton Group of South Otago and Southland, New Zealand with comments on structure and stratigraphy2
- The fauna of the Permo-Carboniferous Ingelara beds of Queensland2
- Biostratigraphy of the Barfield Formation, southeastern Bowen Basin, with a review of the fauna from the Ingelara and lower Peawaddy Formations, southwestern Bowen Basin1
- Late Permian (late Lymingtonian = ?Kazanian) brachiopods from Tasmania1
- Late Palaeozoic Scyphozoa and Brachiopoda (Inarticulata, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, Australia1
- Faunal sequence and palaeoecology of the marine Permian in GSQ Eddystone 1, Denison Trough, Queensland1
- Upper Permian (Tatarian) brachiopods from New Zealand1
Each of the 20 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
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No picture of Plekonella acuta 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 Plekonella acuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plekonella acuta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlekonella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campbell 1953