Pleuroplax rankinei

No picture of Pleuroplax rankinei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pleuroplax rankinei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PleuroplaxPBDB
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.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 6 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316.9 Mya – 315.2 Mya323.9 Mya298.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Pleuroplax rankinei 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

6 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

1 formation

Pennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.11°N, 3.03°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.21°N, 3.04°W

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The named rock units Pleuroplax rankinei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleuroplax rankinei and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pleuroplax rankinei and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pleuroplax rankinei, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Pleuroplax rankinei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Pleuroplax rankinei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pleuroplax rankinei 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. Hancock and Atthey 1843