Platyacanthus

No picture of Platyacanthus 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 Platyacanthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XenacanthidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Xenacanthiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Xenacanthiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Xenacanthiformes

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPermian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293.52 Mya – 290.1 Mya299.8 Mya251 Mya

7 occurrences of Platyacanthus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

7 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

5 formations

Belle Plains — 33.58°N, 98.97°WBelle Plains — 33.69°N, 99.02°WMoran — 32.50°N, 100.06°WArcher City — 33.45°N, 98.78°WGarber — 34.45°N, 98.93°WGarber Sandstone — 34.58°N, 98.85°W

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The named rock units Platyacanthus 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.

Platyacanthus and its relatives

Permian

Where Platyacanthus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Platyacanthus, 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

3 references

Each of the 7 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 Platyacanthus 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 Platyacanthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Platyacanthus 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 itXenacanthidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritsch 1889