Pliomerina trisulcata
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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 9.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Pliomerina trisulcata 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
8 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
4 formations
- Benjamin Limestone Formation · Gordon Group3
- Mole Creek Formation · Gordon Group3
- Benjamin Formation · Gordon Group1
- Gordon Limestone Formation · Gordon Group1
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The named rock units Pliomerina trisulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pliomerina trisulcata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pliomerina trisulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Acidolites2 sites
- Amphilichas2 sites
- Amplexopora2 sites
- Bajgolia2 sites
- Billingsaria2 sites
- Eokosovopeltis grandicurvatus2 sites
- Foerstephyllum2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Lichenaria2 sites
- Stictopora2 sites
- Tetradium2 sites
- Ampyx1 site
- Anaspyroceras1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Aulacera1 site
- Beloitoceras1 site
- Beyrichiidae1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bumastus1 site
- Calapoecia1 site
- Clathrodictyon1 site
- Comarocystites1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Cyathophylloides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pliomerina trisulcata, 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 8 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
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No picture of Pliomerina trisulcata 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 trisulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliomerina trisulcata 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. Edgecombe et al. 1999