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Plaesiomyidae

Plaesiomyidae

Schuchert, 1913

GBIF:165409810

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PROFILE

Species Profile

Characteristics

Extant Ordovician to Silurian

ABOUT

Descriptions(3)

Plaesiomyidae is a family of extinct lamp shells belonging to the order Orthida.
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Fossils of Plaesiomyidae are found in marine strata from the Ordovician until the Silurian (age range: from 478.6 to 418.7 years ago.).Paleobiology Database
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†Austinella Foerste, 1909 †Bokotorthis Popov et al., 2000 †Campylorthis Ulrich and Copper, 1942 †Chaulistomella †Dinorthis Hall and Clarke, 1892 †Evenkina †Madiorthis Zuykov and Harper, 2008 †Metorthis †Multicostella †Plaesiomys Hall and Clarke, 1892 †Retrorsirostra Schuchert and Cooper, 1932 †Valcourea
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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

checklist
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 2026-06-14.

LicensePublished 8/2/2022View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
165409810
Dataset Key
cbb6498e-8927-405a-916b-576d00a6289b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
3251968
Taxon ID
50796013
Last Crawled
6/4/2026
Last Interpreted
6/4/2026