Plethopeltis

Plethopeltis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlethopeltidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 55 of 66 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 11 of 66 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–523 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences519–517 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences512–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510–508 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences502–499 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 3 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 11 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 23 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 17 occurrences487–484 Mya — about 4 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 3 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 2 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–476 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences488.9 Mya – 486.4 Mya540 Mya476 Mya

66 occurrences of Plethopeltis 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

66 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

Signal Mountain Limestone — 34.39°N, 97.12°WSurvey Peak — 52.88°N, 118.08°WSurvey Peak — 51.50°N, 116.20°WSurvey Peak — 52.03°N, 116.84°WMistaya — 51.50°N, 116.20°WMistaya — 52.23°N, 117.23°WMistaya — 51.88°N, 116.67°WShallow Bay — 49.83°N, 57.87°WShallow Bay — 49.92°N, 57.90°WShallow Bay — 49.87°N, 57.82°WLevis — 46.78°N, 71.20°WPotosi — 38.58°N, 90.68°WPotosi — 37.85°N, 90.62°WWhitehall — 42.56°N, 73.40°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 44.38°N, 103.68°WDeadwood — 44.63°N, 104.38°WGorge — 44.92°N, 73.17°WGorge — 44.93°N, 73.05°WEminence — 37.90°N, 91.17°WEminence — 37.30°N, 91.41°WEminence — 37.24°N, 91.29°WTrempealeau — 44.52°N, 89.57°WBliss Sandstone — 32.87°N, 107.18°WWilberns — 31.00°N, 99.26°WHoyt Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WWan-wan-kou — 38.35°N, 125.43°EBison Creek — 51.50°N, 116.20°WHales — 38.00°N, 116.00°WGreen Point — 49.84°N, 57.87°WLa Silla — 30.00°S, 69.00°WBerry Head — 48.76°N, 58.39°WLevis Conglomerate — 46.82°N, 71.18°WWindfall — 39.50°N, 115.99°W

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The named rock units Plethopeltis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plethopeltis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Plethopeltis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Plethopeltis, 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

27 references

Each of the 66 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. 15 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 Plethopeltis

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 Plethopeltis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1913