Placochelys

Placochelys is an extinct genus of placodont reptiles erected by Otto Jaekel in 1902.

Placochelys

FunkMonk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlacochelyidaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Sauropterygia

Time the record covers

At least 143 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 5 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous240–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–223 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences223–217 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences217–212 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–206 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences206–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227.3 Mya83.6 Mya240 Mya69 Mya

5 occurrences of Placochelys on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

5 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

4 formations

Gorno — 45.92°N, 9.92°EHauptdolomit — 48.08°N, 16.28°EVeszprém Marl — 46.00°N, 18.00°EKössener Schichten — 48.13°N, 16.24°E

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The named rock units Placochelys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Placochelys and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Placochelys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Placochelys, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Placochelys

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FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Placochelys 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlacochelyida through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaekel 1902