Plerophyllum

Plerophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlerophyllidaePBDB
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 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 42 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 41 of 42 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 42 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 3 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 5 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 3 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 5 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 3 occurrences307 Mya254.14 Mya316 Mya251 Mya

42 occurrences of Plerophyllum 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

42 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

22 formations

Callytharra — 25.21°S, 115.52°ECallytharra — 23.95°S, 115.06°ECallytharra — 25.07°S, 115.55°EMaokou — 25.67°N, 105.15°EMaokou — 26.54°N, 106.04°EMaokou — 23.25°N, 106.02°EBaidingpu — 28.41°N, 89.53°EChangxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 30.30°N, 106.85°ERat Buri — 7.38°N, 99.30°EBagh-e Vang — 33.98°N, 56.79°ESenja — 28.92°N, 83.36°EPicos de Europa — 43.32°N, 5.05°WWardak — 34.08°N, 68.49°EJamal — 33.98°N, 56.79°EWujiaping — 31.31°N, 119.75°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.42°N, 10.18°EHuanggangliang — 43.94°N, 118.25°EYuquan — 45.41°N, 127.17°ESijiashan — 46.85°N, 122.15°EHeshan — 24.63°N, 108.85°EKhivach — 62.75°N, 159.50°EJulfa — 38.94°N, 45.51°EAli Bashi — 38.94°N, 45.51°ERuteh — 36.26°N, 52.37°ENoonkanbah — 17.38°S, 124.64°ECundlego — 23.74°S, 114.44°E

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The named rock units Plerophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plerophyllum and its relatives

Permian

Where Plerophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

452 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Plerophyllum, 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

24 references

Each of the 42 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Plerophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlerophyllidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hinde 1890)