Plicoplasia

No picture of Plicoplasia 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 Plicoplasia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmbocoeliinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 5 of 36 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 31 of 36 occurrencesDevonian442–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 5 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 3 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 2 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 2 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 2 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 2 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–391 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438.6 Mya387.95 Mya442 Mya381 Mya

36 occurrences of Plicoplasia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

36 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

18 formations

Icla — 19.17°S, 64.92°WIcla — 17.83°S, 64.78°WIcla — 18.93°S, 64.93°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WMaecuru — 0.50°S, 52.00°WMaecuru — 2.00°S, 54.00°WMaecuru — 1.00°S, 55.00°WRoad River — 64.77°N, 135.19°WCoeymans — 41.29°N, 74.14°WCoeymans — 42.80°N, 74.75°WGamoneda — 21.52°S, 64.75°WErere — 2.00°S, 54.00°WErere — 1.50°S, 55.00°WCap Bon Ami — 48.88°N, 64.33°WGrande Greve — 48.88°N, 64.33°WTalacasto — 30.00°S, 68.00°WCoeymans Limestone — 44.33°N, 74.17°WNew Scotland — 42.33°N, 74.17°WCano Grande — 10.50°N, 72.50°WMorzhovaya Bay — 72.00°N, 52.00°ERoad River and /or Delorme — 64.00°N, 133.00°WKulamat — 56.10°N, 59.42°ERabbit Hill Limestone — 39.20°N, 116.42°WQarabil — 37.38°N, 56.34°E

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The named rock units Plicoplasia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plicoplasia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Plicoplasia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Plicoplasia, 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

16 references

Each of the 36 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. 4 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

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No picture of Plicoplasia 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 Plicoplasia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plicoplasia 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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What may have been alongside itAmbocoeliinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.