Platynota

Platynota

TimVickers · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnguiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 405 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 128 of 405 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 405 occurrencesEocene — about 89 of 405 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 405 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 76 of 405 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 405 occurrencesPleistocene — about 54 of 405 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 3 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–81 Mya — about 18 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 27 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 27 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 31 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 18 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 33 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 25 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 13 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 10 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 5 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 28 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 19 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 24 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 84 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

405 occurrences of Platynota on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

405 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

103 formations

Oldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 50.70°N, 111.50°WOldman — 49.30°N, 110.60°WBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.28°N, 110.03°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.60°N, 109.97°WBridger — 41.04°N, 110.23°WLance — 43.35°N, 104.48°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.17°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.64°N, 103.49°WHell Creek — 47.10°N, 104.69°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.24°N, 107.10°WSan Jose — 36.37°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.41°N, 107.08°WSan Jose — 36.24°N, 106.95°WSan Jose — 36.18°N, 106.99°WDjadokhta — 44.22°N, 103.27°EDjadokhta — 43.66°N, 100.90°EDjadokhta — 43.65°N, 100.78°EDjadokhta — 44.00°N, 104.00°EDjadokhta — 44.09°N, 102.91°EGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WGreen River — 41.78°N, 110.73°WGreen River — 41.67°N, 110.67°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WWillwood — 44.78°N, 108.97°WWillwood — 44.85°N, 109.17°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WUinta — 40.13°N, 109.52°WUinta — 40.11°N, 109.22°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°WUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°WUinta — 40.07°N, 109.70°WWind River — 43.13°N, 104.07°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WStraight Cliffs — 37.49°N, 111.89°WStraight Cliffs — 37.60°N, 111.97°WStraight Cliffs — 37.62°N, 112.16°WKaiparowits — 37.44°N, 111.80°WKaiparowits — 37.40°N, 111.20°WKaiparowits — 37.80°N, 111.50°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WBaruungoyot — 43.49°N, 101.13°EBaruungoyot — 43.32°N, 99.83°ENubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.50°N, 101.75°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.54°N, 101.36°WScollard — 52.33°N, 113.12°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.34°N, 103.59°WJebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°E

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The named rock units Platynota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 156 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platynota and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Platynota and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 340 sites for Platynota, and this reads 240 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

200 references

Each of the 405 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. 188 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 Platynota

Credit
TimVickers
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Platynota 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 itAnguiformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Baur 1890)