Platylichas infimus
No picture of Platylichas infimus 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 Platylichas infimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatylichasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lichida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Lichidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Platylichas infimus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Platylichas infimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platylichas infimus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Platylichas infimus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Aulacopleura1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Curriella clancyi1 site
- Cyclospira1 site
- Dalmanella edgewoodensis1 site
- Epitomyonia sekwiensis1 site
- Harpidella1 site
- Katastrophomena parvicardinis1 site
- Leonaspis1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) haverfordensis1 site
- Maurotarion1 site
- Primaspis1 site
- Skenidioides operosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Platylichas infimus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Silurian Lichid Trilobites from Northwestern Canada: Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Lichids1
- Late Ordovician and Silurian lichid trilobites from northwestern Canada: eight new species from subfamilies Lichinae, Platylichinae, and Trochurinae1
Each of the 2 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 Platylichas infimus 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 Platylichas infimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platylichas infimus 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 itPlatylichas through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campbell and Chatterton 2006