Pseudoplasmopora

No picture of Pseudoplasmopora 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 Pseudoplasmopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudoplasmoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 12 occurrencesSilurian — about 7 of 12 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 12 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–423 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432.9 Mya387.95 Mya444 Mya381 Mya

12 occurrences of Pseudoplasmopora on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

12 occurrences

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

9 formations

Jupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WDouglas Creek Limestone — 22.90°S, 147.63°EUkalunda — 20.00°S, 147.00°EAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.22°N, 64.88°WLa Vieille — 48.22°N, 64.88°WSilverdale — 34.83°S, 148.92°EErdaogou — 43.00°N, 127.00°EKekexiongkuduke — 46.75°N, 86.50°EBaruun-Urt — 46.67°N, 113.27°E

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The named rock units Pseudoplasmopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudoplasmopora and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pseudoplasmopora and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pseudoplasmopora, 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

9 references

Each of the 12 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 Pseudoplasmopora 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 Pseudoplasmopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pseudoplasmopora 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 itPseudoplasmoporidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bondarenko 1963