Pliomeridius

Pliomeridius is an extinct genus of trilobite in the family Pliomeridae.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PliomeridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Pliomeridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 9.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 461.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician — about 12 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya468 Mya486.9 Mya460.6 Mya

12 occurrences of Pliomeridius on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

12 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

4 formations

Outram — 52.88°N, 118.08°WAcoite — 24.00°S, 66.00°WSepulturas — 22.92°S, 65.62°WSepulturas — 23.92°S, 65.60°WSella — 21.38°S, 64.72°W

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The named rock units Pliomeridius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pliomeridius and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pliomeridius and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

79 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Pliomeridius, 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

6 references

Each of the 12 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 Pliomeridius 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 Pliomeridius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pliomeridius 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPliomeridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leanza and Baldis 1975