Platychonia schlotheimi

Platychonia schlotheimi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatychoniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 65 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 64 of 65 occurrencesLate Jurassic169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–161 Mya — about 7 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 7 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 7 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 11 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 17 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–154 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya154.8 Mya168.7 Mya148.7 Mya

65 occurrences of Platychonia schlotheimi on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

65 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

3 formations

Jasna Gora — 50.07°N, 19.62°EJasna Gora — 50.45°N, 19.52°EJasna Gora — 50.42°N, 19.35°EJasna Gora — 50.73°N, 19.13°EZawodzie — 50.82°N, 19.13°EZawodzie — 50.43°N, 19.55°EZawodzie — 50.47°N, 19.55°EPatcham — 23.70°N, 69.05°E

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The named rock units Platychonia schlotheimi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platychonia schlotheimi and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Platychonia schlotheimi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

166 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Platychonia schlotheimi, 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

4 references

Each of the 65 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

Media content1

Picture of Platychonia schlotheimi

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Platychonia schlotheimi 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 itPlatychonia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1833)