Platella

No picture of Platella was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Platella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytherellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Platycopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platycopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Platycopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 527 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 13 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences648–626 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences626–604 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences604–583 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences583–561 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences561–540 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences540–518 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–194 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences194–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence538.8 Mya11.63 Mya648 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Platella on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

13 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

Gamuza — 30.42°N, 111.93°WTabligbo Limestone — 6.34°N, 1.11°EGatun — 9.37°N, 79.85°WByng — 53.03°N, 118.73°W

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The named rock units Platella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platella and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Platella and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Platella, 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

8 references

Each of the 13 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 content0

No picture of Platella was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Platella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itCytherellidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coryell and Fields 1937