Plutonides hicksii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlutonidesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Paradoxidoidea
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Paradoxididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 499.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Plutonides hicksii on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Plutonides hicksii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plutonides hicksii and its relatives
CambrianWhere Plutonides hicksii and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Tomagnostus fissus2 sites
- Acrotreta sagittalis1 site
- Agraulos ceticephalus1 site
- Bailiaspis1 site
- Cotalagnostus claudicans1 site
- Davidocinctus pembrokensis1 site
- Elliptocinctus vizcainoi1 site
- Euagnostus aff. interstrictus1 site
- Hypagnostus frontosa1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Micromitra1 site
- Onymagnostus ciceroides1 site
- Parasolenopleura brevicauda1 site
- Parasolenopleura scanica1 site
- Parasolenopleura spinigera1 site
- Peronopsis1 site
- Peronopsis scutalis1 site
- Protospongia1 site
- Ptychagnostus1 site
- Ptychagnostus atavus1 site
- Ptychagnostus seminula1 site
- Solenopleura applanata1 site
- Tomagnostus perrugatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Plutonides hicksii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Biostratigraphy and taxonomy of polymerid trilobites of the Manuels River Formation (Drumian, middle Cambrian), Newfoundland, Canada1
- The Cambrian of SW Wales: Towards a United Avalonian Stratigraphy1
- A highly diverse trilobite fauna with Avalonian affinities from the Middle Cambrian Acidusus atavus Zone (Drumian Stage) of Bornholm, Denmark1
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. 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 Plutonides hicksii 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 Plutonides hicksii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plutonides hicksii 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 itPlutonides through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salter 1866)