Platycoryphe

Platycoryphe

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HomalonotinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Homalonotidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 34 occurrencesOrdovician — about 30 of 34 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 34 occurrencesSilurian487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–469 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–458 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 4 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 10 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–439 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477.1 Mya443.1 Mya487 Mya432 Mya

34 occurrences of Platycoryphe on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

34 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

20 formations

Grès Armoricain — 48.00°N, 1.00°WGrès Armoricain — 47.73°N, 1.59°WGrès Armoricain — 48.20°N, 0.02°EWufeng — 33.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 119.00°EZhalair — 43.75°N, 75.36°ETabuk — 26.90°N, 43.54°ETabuk — 26.84°N, 43.59°EWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WLetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°ENanzheng — 35.00°N, 108.00°EKuanyinchiao — 31.00°N, 112.00°EKuanyinchiao — 28.36°N, 108.51°ELangoyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°EXiehao — 38.00°N, 103.00°ECouches du Foulon — 43.00°N, 3.00°ELandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°ENancheng Beds — 33.00°N, 107.00°ENancheng — 33.00°N, 106.93°ELangåra — 59.87°N, 10.50°EMoitiers d'Allonne — 49.40°N, 1.78°WEllis Bay — 49.80°N, 64.38°WVillar del Salz — 40.93°N, 2.05°WXinkailing — 29.21°N, 111.26°E

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The named rock units Platycoryphe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platycoryphe and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Platycoryphe and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

305 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Platycoryphe, 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

22 references

Each of the 34 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Platycoryphe

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Platycoryphe 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1919