Plocezyga acuminata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlocezygaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 306 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Plocezyga acuminata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
- Glenshaw Formation · Conemaugh Group2
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The named rock units Plocezyga acuminata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plocezyga acuminata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Plocezyga acuminata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Leptozyga venustus2 sites
- Plocezyga turbinata2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura pandus2 sites
- Cyclozyga attenuata1 site
- Donaldina robusta1 site
- Hyphantozyga fenestrata1 site
- Hyphantozyga grandis1 site
- Hyphantozyga textilis1 site
- Levizygopleura inornata1 site
- Palaeostylus1 site
- Ploceozyga (Hyphantozyga) cancellata1 site
- Plocezyga cordiformis1 site
- Plocezyga costata1 site
- Plocezyga intermedia1 site
- Plocezyga markae1 site
- Plocezyga obscura1 site
- Plocezyga ornata1 site
- Plocezyga ornatissima1 site
- Plocezyga regularia1 site
- Plocezyga subquadrata1 site
- Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura)1 site
- Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) peoriense1 site
- Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) pinquicula1 site
- Pseudozygopleura cirritus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plocezyga acuminata, 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 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plocezyga acuminata 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 Plocezyga acuminata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plocezyga acuminata 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 itPlocezyga through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hoare and Sturgeon 1980)