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Plaesiomys

Plaesiomys

Hall & Clarke, 1892

GBIF:165409809

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PROFILE

Species Profile

Characteristics

Extant Ordovician

ABOUT

Descriptions(3)

Plaesiomys is a genus of extinct lamp shells belonging to the family Plaesiomyidae.
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Fossils of Plaesiomys are found in marine strata of the Ordovician (age range: from 466.0 to 443.7 years ago.) of Canada, China, Europe and United States.Paleobiology Database
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†Plaesiomys anticostiensis (Shaler, 1865) †Plaesiomys bellistriatus Wang, 1949 †Plaesiomys carletona Twenhofel, 1928 †Plaesiomys fidelis Popov et al., 2000 †Plaesiomys iphigenia (Billings, 1865) †Plaesiomys multiplicata Bancroft, 1945 †Plaesiomys porcata (McCoy, 1846) †Plaesiomys proavitus Winchell and Schuchert, 1892 †Plaesiomys rockymontana Wilson, 1926 †Plaesiomys saxbiana Oraspold, 1959 †Plaesiomys subquadrata (Hall, 1847)
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CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

MULTIMEDIA

Media Files(1)

Fossils of Plaesiomys subquadrata

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IMAGES

Gallery(1)

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Occurrences with images

Source Information

English Wikipedia - Species Pages

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Species pages extracted from the English Wikipedia article XML dump from 2022-08-02. Multimedia, vernacular names and textual descriptions are extracted, but only pages with a taxobox or speciesbox template are recognized. See https://github.com/mdoering/wikipedia-dwca for details.

Döring M (2022). English Wikipedia - Species Pages. Wikimedia Foundation. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/c3kkgh accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

LicensePublished 8/2/2022View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
165409809
Dataset Key
cbb6498e-8927-405a-916b-576d00a6289b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
4870305
Taxon ID
50795932
Last Crawled
6/4/2026
Last Interpreted
6/4/2026