Platyceras echinatum
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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 5.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Platyceras echinatum 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Platyceras echinatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platyceras echinatum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Platyceras echinatum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Actinopteria boydi1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Atribonium gainesi1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Aviculopecten terminalis1 site
- Callipleura nobilis1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Camarotoechia tethys1 site
- Centronella navicella1 site
- Clinopistha1 site
- Coniproetus folliceps1 site
- Cranaena lincklaeni1 site
- Cranaena romingeri1 site
- Cranaena sullivanti1 site
- Crassiproetus crassimarginatus1 site
- Cryptonella1 site
- Cryptonella ovalis1 site
- Cyclonema1 site
- Cypricardinia indenta1 site
- Cyrtina hamiltonensis1 site
- Elasmonema bellatula1 site
- Elita fimbriata1 site
- Eunella harmonia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Platyceras echinatum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Platyceras echinatum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 echinatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platyceras echinatum 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 itPlatyceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1862)