Pleuroplax
No picture of Pleuroplax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleuroplax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CochliodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
11 occurrences of Pleuroplax on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Pleuroplax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pleuroplax and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Pleuroplax and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Acanthodes wardi3 sites
- Ctenoptychius apicalis3 sites
- Elonichthys3 sites
- Rhadinichthys3 sites
- Strepsodus sauroides3 sites
- Deltoptychius acutus2 sites
- Diplodus tenuis2 sites
- Helodus simplex2 sites
- Janassa bituminosa2 sites
- Paecilodus jonesii2 sites
- Petalodus acuminatus2 sites
- Pleuracanthus cylindricus2 sites
- Pleuracanthus laevissimus2 sites
- Rhizodopsis sauroides2 sites
- Streblodus colei2 sites
- Acanthodes1 site
- Cochliodus contortus1 site
- Cycloptychius carbonarius1 site
- Cyrtonodus hornei1 site
- Deltoptychius gibberuius1 site
- Janassa1 site
- Orodus moniliformis1 site
- Orthacanthus1 site
- Orthacanthus gibbosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Pleuroplax, 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- Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 17
- Fish Remains from the North Wales Coalfield4
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pleuroplax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleuroplax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleuroplax was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itCochliodontidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1889