Pleurocora arachnoides

Pleurocora arachnoides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PleurocoraPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pleurocora
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Pleurocora arachnoides on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

11 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

5 formations

Streiteck — 47.50°N, 11.88°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°ETheresienstein — 47.72°N, 13.48°EVallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°EKonglomeratbank — 48.53°N, 24.63°E

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The named rock units Pleurocora arachnoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleurocora arachnoides and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pleurocora arachnoides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pleurocora arachnoides, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Pleurocora arachnoides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pleurocora arachnoides 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 itPleurocora through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Knorr and Walch 1777)