Platylichas latus
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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 least 1.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 451.8 Mya to 450.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.9 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Platylichas latus 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Platylichas latus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platylichas latus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Platylichas latus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata3 sites
- Parillaenus fallax3 sites
- Ambonychinia cylindrica2 sites
- Caryocystites lagenalis2 sites
- Decoroproetus2 sites
- Furudaloceras tomtei2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Illaenus gigas2 sites
- Illaenus wimani2 sites
- Isorthoceras nikwis2 sites
- Kullsbergoceras nissei2 sites
- Ordogeisonoceras tartuensis2 sites
- Platylichas lingua2 sites
- Platylichas robustus2 sites
- Prionocheilus foveolatum2 sites
- Pseudosphaerexochus granulatus2 sites
- Sphaerexochus hisingeri2 sites
- Actinopterinia semicircularis1 site
- Airina1 site
- Alaskadiscus planissimus1 site
- Allumettoceras mjoesense1 site
- Ambonychinia kullsbergensis1 site
- Ambonychinia magna1 site
- Ambonychinia megumbona1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Platylichas latus, 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
2 references- The Trilobites of the Leptæna Limestone in Dalarne3
- Стратиграфія ордовику Придністров’я (Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transnistria) (= Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transdniestria)1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Platylichas latus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Platylichas latus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tornquist 1884)