Platyceras argo
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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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Platyceras argo 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Platyceras argo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platyceras argo and its relatives
DevonianWhere Platyceras argo and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Pentamerella arata3 sites
- Platyceras erectum3 sites
- Spirifer3 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Bethanyphyllum2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Camarotoechia tethys2 sites
- Cystiphylloides2 sites
- Favosites basalticus2 sites
- Fenestella2 sites
- Heterophrentis2 sites
- Levenea lenticularis2 sites
- Megastrophia2 sites
- Meristina nasuta2 sites
- Orthonychia conicum2 sites
- Platyceras rarispinum2 sites
- Platyostoma lineata2 sites
- Platyostoma turbinata2 sites
- Stromatoporoidea2 sites
- Viaphacops cristatus2 sites
- Actinopteria boydi1 site
- Amplexiphyllum1 site
- Athyris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Platyceras argo, 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
2 references- Stratigraphy of the Onondaga Limestone in Central New York2
- The Devonian fossils and stratigraphy of Indiana1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Platyceras argo 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 argo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platyceras argo 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlatyceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1862