Platylaemus colei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatylaemusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Platylaemus colei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group4
- Elmore Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- London Clay Formation1
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The named rock units Platylaemus colei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platylaemus colei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Platylaemus colei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
208 taxa- Brachycarcharias lerichei7 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis7 sites
- Jaekelotodus trigonalis7 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri7 sites
- Scyliorhinus7 sites
- Aetobatus irregularis6 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni6 sites
- Aetomylaeus striatus6 sites
- Burnhamia daviesi6 sites
- Chelone6 sites
- Conger6 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus6 sites
- Dasyatis jaekeli6 sites
- Eotrigonodon serratus6 sites
- Galeorhinus ypresiensis6 sites
- Heterodontus6 sites
- Heterodontus woodwardi6 sites
- Isurus praecursor6 sites
- Notorhynchus6 sites
- Palaeocybium proosti6 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti6 sites
- Pristis lathami6 sites
- Prolates6 sites
- Rhynchobatus vincenti6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Platylaemus colei, 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
3 references- The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants)5
- Stratigraphy and Biota of the Elmore Formation (Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, Hampshire1
- Dixon, 18501
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Platylaemus colei 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 Platylaemus colei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platylaemus colei 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 itPlatylaemus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dixon 1850