Plesiodiceras

No picture of Plesiodiceras 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 Plesiodiceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EpidiceratidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 12 of 12 occurrencesLate Jurassic158–157 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–155 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154.8 Mya149.2 Mya158.4 Mya144.6 Mya

12 occurrences of Plesiodiceras on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

12 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

Prapont — 46.18°N, 5.68°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EJubaila Limestone — 25.17°N, 46.24°E

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The named rock units Plesiodiceras 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.

Plesiodiceras and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Plesiodiceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Plesiodiceras, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content0

No picture of Plesiodiceras 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 Plesiodiceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plesiodiceras 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 itEpidiceratidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.