Platyceras paralium
No picture of Platyceras paralium 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 paralium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Platyceras paralium 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
3 occurrences- Devonian33%
- Carboniferous67%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Platyceras paralium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platyceras paralium and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Platyceras paralium and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Syringothyris3 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Chonetipustula concentrica2 sites
- Conularia2 sites
- Linoproductus ovatus2 sites
- Nucleospira2 sites
- Paraphorhynchus2 sites
- Spirifer2 sites
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Aorocrinus1 site
- Beecheria chouteauensis1 site
- Bellerophon blairi1 site
- Brachythyris1 site
- Brachythyris chouteauensis1 site
- Camarophorella lenticularis1 site
- Chonetes glenparkensis1 site
- Chonetes illinoisensis1 site
- Chonetes logani1 site
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Conocardium1 site
- Conopoterium1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Cranaena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Platyceras paralium, 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- The Stratigraphy of the Kinderhook Series of Iowa2
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Louisiana Limestone of Missouri1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. 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 paralium 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 paralium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platyceras paralium 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (White and Whitfield 1862)