Platyaxum

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoenitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Devonian — about 64 of 64 occurrencesDevonian414–412 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 1 occurrence411–410 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 4 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 6 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 6 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 6 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 12 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 11 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 4 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 6 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410.62 Mya382.31 Mya413.8 Mya371.3 Mya

64 occurrences of Platyaxum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

64 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

25 formations

Ihmert — 51.26°N, 7.65°EJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.25°N, 85.77°WFreilingen — 50.32°N, 6.68°EFreilingen — 50.37°N, 6.61°EHagen-Balve — 51.40°N, 7.81°EHagen-Balve — 51.37°N, 7.86°ENewberria — 51.17°N, 7.97°ENewberria — 51.12°N, 7.88°EUnterhonsel — 51.36°N, 7.70°ECandás — 43.35°N, 6.02°WHohe Warte Limestone — 46.62°N, 12.88°EAhbach — 50.32°N, 6.72°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.45°N, 8.63°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.42°N, 8.58°EMechra Ben Abbou — 32.97°N, 7.76°WMechra Ben Abbou — 32.64°N, 7.76°WBeechwood Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WYarrimie — 30.95°S, 150.87°ELoogh — 50.52°N, 6.55°EKürten — 50.52°N, 6.55°ERodert — 50.52°N, 6.55°EKerpen — 50.52°N, 6.55°EHobräcke — 51.18°N, 7.85°EMassenkalk — 51.18°N, 8.02°ESelscheid — 51.23°N, 7.97°EPortilla — 42.84°N, 5.50°WKoneprusy — 49.92°N, 14.07°ETaboumakhlouf — 30.82°N, 4.53°WBurdekin — 19.73°S, 146.43°E

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The named rock units Platyaxum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platyaxum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Platyaxum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

408 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Platyaxum, 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

25 references

Each of the 64 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 Platyaxum 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 Platyaxum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Platyaxum 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 itCoenitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Davis 1887