Pleramplexus

Pleramplexus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlerophyllinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermian294–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283.3 Mya264.28 Mya294.2 Mya259.2 Mya

7 occurrences of Pleramplexus 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

7 occurrences

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

Wardak — 34.11°N, 68.53°EAbadeh — 30.91°N, 53.22°ERat Buri — 15.00°N, 98.50°E

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The named rock units Pleramplexus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleramplexus and its relatives

Permian

Where Pleramplexus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

82 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pleramplexus, 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

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 content1

Picture of Pleramplexus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pleramplexus 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 itPlerophyllinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schindewolf 1940