Plinthosella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlinthosellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 79 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya33.9 Mya123 Mya21 Mya

23 occurrences of Plinthosella 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

23 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

5 formations

Ahlen — 51.72°N, 7.85°EArnager Limestone — 55.05°N, 14.78°EIlsenburg — 51.90°N, 10.67°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EUpper Chalk — 52.73°N, 1.35°E

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The named rock units Plinthosella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plinthosella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Plinthosella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

505 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Plinthosella, 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

11 references

Each of the 23 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. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Plinthosella 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 itPlinthosellidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1878