Plesiolampas paquieri

Plesiolampas paquieri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlesiolampasPBDB
Diet
grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 61.66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 5 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62.2 Mya55.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Plesiolampas paquieri on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

5 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

1 formation

Teberemt — 17.40°N, 0.43°ETeberemt — 19.22°N, 0.30°ETeberemt — 17.40°N, 0.50°E

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

Plesiolampas paquieri and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Plesiolampas paquieri and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Plesiolampas paquieri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 Plesiolampas paquieri

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Plesiolampas paquieri was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPlesiolampas through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lambert 1907