Pliothyrina grandis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PliothyrinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
25 occurrences of Pliothyrina grandis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
25 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Pliothyrina grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pliothyrina grandis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Pliothyrina grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Argyrotheca bitnerae7 sites
- Discinisca fallens6 sites
- Argyrotheca megalocephala5 sites
- Bronnothyris rugosa4 sites
- Joania crenata4 sites
- Megathiris detruncata4 sites
- Megerlia truncata4 sites
- Terebratulina tenuistriata4 sites
- Lacazella mediterranea3 sites
- Platidia3 sites
- Aphelesia supraoligocaenica2 sites
- Argyrotheca lunula2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Chlamys (Placopecten) princeps priori2 sites
- Chlamys (Plagioctenium) diprosopa2 sites
- Mytilus brewsterensis2 sites
- Terebratula maxima2 sites
- Acanthocardia paucicostata1 site
- Acar1 site
- Acmaea1 site
- Aequipecten1 site
- Amusium1 site
- Angulus1 site
- Argyrotheca costulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Pliothyrina grandis, 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- Upper Oligocene brachiopods from NW Germany, with description of a new Platidiinae genus, Germanoplatidia n. gen11
- Early Oligocene brachiopods from the rocky-shore deposits at Mammendorf, central Germany7
- Tertiary faunas from Kap Brewstwer, East Greenland3
- Middle Miocene (Badenian) brachiopods from the southern slopes of the Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland2
- Brachiopods from the Silberberg Formation (Late Eocene to Early Oligocene) of Atzendorf, Central Germany1
- The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops)1
Each of the 25 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 Pliothyrina grandis 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 Pliothyrina grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pliothyrina grandis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPliothyrina through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blumenbach 1803)