Plicatula georgiana
No picture of Plicatula georgiana 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 Plicatula georgiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlicatulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Plicatula
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Plicatula
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Plicatula
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Plicatula georgiana 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
14 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group7
- Roca Formation · Malargüe Group7
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The named rock units Plicatula georgiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plicatula georgiana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Plicatula georgiana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Camptonectes tutorae10 sites
- Ambigostrea clarae6 sites
- Septifer mayai6 sites
- Venericardia iheringi4 sites
- Acesta3 sites
- Amphidonte (Amphidonte) mendozana3 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes)3 sites
- Pinna3 sites
- Turkostrea damboreneae3 sites
- Turritella doeringi3 sites
- Amphidonte mendozana2 sites
- Eucalliax burckhardti2 sites
- Lobonotus lobulata2 sites
- Paraesa2 sites
- Spondylus2 sites
- ? Aphrodina burckhardti1 site
- Atrina1 site
- Botryococcus1 site
- Camptonectes1 site
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes)1 site
- Chelidae1 site
- Corbicula (Cyanocyclas)1 site
- Ctenocheles1 site
- Cubitostrea primordialis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Plicatula georgiana, 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
1 referenceEach of the 14 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 Plicatula georgiana 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 Plicatula georgiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plicatula georgiana was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlicatula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritzsche 1919