Pleurodium
No picture of Pleurodium 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 Pleurodium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleurodiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Pleurodium on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
6 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Pleurodium 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.
Pleurodium and its relatives
SilurianWhere Pleurodium and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Zygospiraella5 sites
- Isorthis4 sites
- Leptellina (Merciella)4 sites
- Stricklandia4 sites
- Brevilamnulella3 sites
- Lissatrypa3 sites
- Pycnactis3 sites
- Tryplasma3 sites
- Aegiria2 sites
- Beitaia2 sites
- Cantrillia2 sites
- Cystiphyllum2 sites
- Encrinuroides2 sites
- Eospirifer2 sites
- Harpidium2 sites
- Kosovopeltis2 sites
- Mesoleptostrophia2 sites
- Pentamerus2 sites
- Ptilillaenus2 sites
- Amplexoides1 site
- Atrypina1 site
- Brachyelasma1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- Ceriaster1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pleurodium, 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
2 references- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China4
- Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example2
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Pleurodium 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 Pleurodium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleurodium 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPleurodiinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang 1955