Pleuronectites

Pleuronectites

Wahl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 71 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 30 of 71 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 33 of 71 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 7 of 71 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 71 occurrencesLate Jurassic254–250 Mya — about 4 occurrences250–247 Mya — about 26 occurrences247–243 Mya — about 13 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 14 occurrences240–236 Mya — about 5 occurrences236–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–229 Mya — about 2 occurrences229–225 Mya — about 1 occurrence225–222 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences251.1 Mya154.8 Mya254 Mya147 Mya

71 occurrences of Pleuronectites on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

71 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

17 formations

Moenkopi — 39.00°N, 110.68°WMoenkopi — 39.10°N, 110.50°WMoenkopi — 38.24°N, 111.25°WMoenkopi — 35.98°N, 115.44°WMoenkopi — 36.19°N, 114.94°WMoenkopi — 40.57°N, 110.49°WMoenkopi — 38.24°N, 112.22°WMoenkopi — 37.10°N, 113.71°WMoenkopi — 37.10°N, 113.25°WMoenkopi — 37.13°N, 113.76°WQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°ETrochitenkalk — 50.75°N, 8.50°ETrochitenkalk — 51.66°N, 9.06°ETrochitenkalk — 51.62°N, 9.12°ETrochitenkalk — 49.17°N, 10.02°EDajialian — 37.49°N, 99.38°EMeißner — 49.08°N, 9.89°EMeißner — 49.18°N, 10.05°EFelsörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EFelsörs — 46.88°N, 17.63°EMartin Bridge — 45.00°N, 116.00°WHirabara — 34.17°N, 131.17°EWetterstein — 48.50°N, 17.33°EDinwoody — 44.76°N, 112.30°WAugusta — 39.61°N, 117.49°WJianghe — 37.49°N, 99.38°EWerfen — 46.38°N, 11.79°EMuschelkalk — 40.55°N, 8.32°ECephalopod Limestone — 9.83°S, 124.57°ECaerace — 45.05°N, 29.06°EAugusta Mountain — 39.61°N, 117.50°W

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The named rock units Pleuronectites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleuronectites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Pleuronectites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

806 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Pleuronectites, 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

30 references

Each of the 71 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. 18 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 content2

Picture of Pleuronectites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Wahl
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPectinidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlotheim 1820