Platyceras niagarensis

Platyceras niagarensis

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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 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 439.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 15 of 16 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 16 occurrences442–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–428 Mya — about 10 occurrences428–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430.6 Mya358.86 Mya442 Mya296 Mya

16 occurrences of Platyceras niagarensis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

16 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

6 formations

Rochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WIrondequoit — 43.18°N, 78.72°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WLodgepole — 46.96°N, 110.49°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WRacine Dolomite — 43.05°N, 88.02°W

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The named rock units Platyceras niagarensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Platyceras niagarensis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Platyceras niagarensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

279 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Platyceras niagarensis, 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

5 references

Each of the 16 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Platyceras niagarensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1852)