Platyacanthus americanus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatyacanthusPBDB
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 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPermian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesPermian299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293.52 Mya290.1 Mya299.4 Mya282.8 Mya

5 occurrences of Platyacanthus americanus 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

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

3 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°W

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The named rock units Platyacanthus americanus 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 americanus and its relatives

Permian

Where Platyacanthus americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Platyacanthus americanus, 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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Platyacanthus americanus, 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 itPlatyacanthus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hussakof 1911)