Pliomerina prima
No picture of Pliomerina prima 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 Pliomerina prima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliomerinaPBDB
- 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 most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pliomerina prima 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
- Fossil Hill Limestone Formation · Cliefden Caves Group1
- Cliefden Caves Limestone Formation1
- Daylesford Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Pliomerina prima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pliomerina prima and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pliomerina prima and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Anoptambonites1 site
- Asaphidae1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Bajgolia1 site
- Batostoma1 site
- Catazyga1 site
- Chondrites1 site
- Coccoseris1 site
- Dinorthis1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Eofletcheria1 site
- Eokosovopeltis1 site
- Hillophyllum1 site
- Leptellina1 site
- Maclurites1 site
- Nyctopora1 site
- Parkesolithus1 site
- Protozyga1 site
- Pseudobasilicus1 site
- Pseudobasilicus fortis1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Remopleurides acer1 site
- Rhynchotrema1 site
- Septatrypa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pliomerina prima, 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
2 references- The trilobite Pliomerina Chugaeva from the Ordovician of New South Wales2
- Ordovician Trimerrillacean brachiopod shell beds1
Each of the 3 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 Pliomerina prima 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 Pliomerina prima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliomerina prima 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 itPliomerina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Webby 1971