Platyceras (Platyceras)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatycerasPBDB
Diet
parasitePBDB, for Platyceras
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platyceras
Motility
facultatively mobile, epibiontPBDB, for Platyceras
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Platyceratidae

Time the record covers

At least 128 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 304.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 35 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 11 of 35 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 21 of 35 occurrencesCarboniferous441–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–427 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences427–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–418 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences418–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–409 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences409–404 Mya — about 1 occurrence404–399 Mya — about 1 occurrence399–395 Mya — about 1 occurrence395–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–352 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences352–348 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences348–343 Mya — about 6 occurrences343–338 Mya — about 5 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–324 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences310–306 Mya — about 3 occurrences306–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence432.9 Mya304.8 Mya441 Mya301 Mya

35 occurrences of Platyceras (Platyceras) on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

35 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

19 formations

Muldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°W"Carboniferous" — 50.85°N, 20.42°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EPeski — 55.25°N, 38.68°EPeski — 55.74°N, 37.63°EBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WMaecuru — 2.00°S, 54.00°WMaecuru — 1.00°S, 55.00°WTaemas — 34.99°S, 148.83°ETaemas — 34.83°S, 148.92°ERepreso — 30.72°N, 112.35°WErere — 2.00°S, 54.00°WPapilio Mudstone — 19.50°S, 144.73°EZhusileng — 41.80°N, 101.50°EVik — 59.90°N, 10.52°ECape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WFayetteville — 35.75°N, 95.37°WKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.18°EMeschera — 55.74°N, 37.63°ENovlenskoe — 55.19°N, 38.80°ETin Mountain — 36.39°N, 117.43°W

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The named rock units Platyceras (Platyceras) 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.

Platyceras (Platyceras) and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Platyceras (Platyceras) and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

632 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Platyceras (Platyceras), 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

18 references

Each of the 35 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. 6 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 content1

3D model

Source
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Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
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No picture of Platyceras (Platyceras) 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 Platyceras (Platyceras), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itPlatyceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1840