Platyceras pulcherrimum
No picture of Platyceras pulcherrimum 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 pulcherrimum, 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 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Platyceras pulcherrimum 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Platyceras pulcherrimum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platyceras pulcherrimum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Platyceras pulcherrimum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Acanthospirina2 sites
- Camarophorella2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Orbinaria pyxidata2 sites
- Petrocrania dodgei2 sites
- Rhipidomella missouriensis2 sites
- Spirifer2 sites
- Syringothyris2 sites
- ? Gryptochiton anomalus1 site
- Acanthocrania spiculata1 site
- Allagecrinus1 site
- Allorhynchus1 site
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Bembexia minima1 site
- Brachymetopus1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Cyrtina1 site
- Dorsisinus louisianensis1 site
- Foraminifera1 site
- Glossina lineolata1 site
- Leioclema1 site
- Leptalosia scintilla1 site
- Leptodiscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Platyceras pulcherrimum, 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 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 pulcherrimum 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 pulcherrimum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platyceras pulcherrimum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Rowley 1908