Placochelys placodonta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlacochelysPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Placochelys placodonta 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Placochelys placodonta 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 placodonta and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Placochelys placodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Placochelys placodonta, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
3 references- The cranial anatomy of Placochelys placodonta Jaekel, 1902, and a review of the Cyamodontoidea (Reptilia, Placodonta)1
- Denti di rettili placodonti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano1
- Resti fossili di rettili nel Raibliano delle Alpi Carniche1
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. 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.
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No picture of Placochelys placodonta 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 Placochelys placodonta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Placochelys placodonta 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 itPlacochelys through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaekel 1902