Platillaenus

Platillaenus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IllaenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 449.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468 Mya452.8 Mya477.6 Mya449.4 Mya

17 occurrences of Platillaenus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

17 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

7 formations

Valcour — 44.87°N, 73.41°WValcour — 44.86°N, 73.34°WValcour — 44.62°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WKarmberg — 42.00°S, 146.00°ESan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WKhrevitsa — 59.61°N, 30.23°EElizavetino — 59.61°N, 30.23°EDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.44°W

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The named rock units Platillaenus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Platillaenus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Platillaenus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

141 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Platillaenus, 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

5 references

Each of the 17 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 Platillaenus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Platillaenus 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itIllaenidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaanusson 1954