Plesiagraulos

Plesiagraulos

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AgraulidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Agraulidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesCambrian507–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences507 Mya504 Mya

7 occurrences of Plesiagraulos 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

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

2 formations

Laoyingshan — 32.58°N, 116.85°EMaochuang — 36.42°N, 116.88°EMaochuang — 41.25°N, 124.47°E

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The named rock units Plesiagraulos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Plesiagraulos and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Plesiagraulos and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Plesiagraulos, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

3 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 Plesiagraulos

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 of Plesiagraulos 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chang 1963