Platyorthis

Platyorthis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatyorthidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 62 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 60 of 62 occurrencesDevonian442–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 2 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 10 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 10 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 10 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 5 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 3 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 1 occurrence407–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–403 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 3 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 3 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 3 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–385 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence438.6 Mya383.4 Mya442 Mya381 Mya

62 occurrences of Platyorthis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

62 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

37 formations

Kalkberg — 42.84°N, 74.75°WKalkberg — 42.86°N, 74.81°WKalkberg — 42.89°N, 74.97°WLuesma — 41.63°N, 0.88°WAlcolea — 40.40°N, 3.68°WGladbach — 50.00°N, 7.00°ELynton Slates — 51.22°N, 3.83°WMitkov Beds — 49.02°N, 25.80°EEsopus — 42.33°N, 74.17°WEsopus — 41.35°N, 74.11°WLandevennec — 48.35°N, 4.43°WLandevennec — 48.20°N, 4.08°WMaecuru — 2.00°S, 54.00°WMaecuru — 1.00°S, 55.00°WSong Mua — 21.18°N, 105.07°EBerlé — 50.02°N, 6.13°EBerlé — 50.01°N, 6.05°EDartmouth Beds — 50.32°N, 4.22°WBostów — 50.90°N, 21.08°EKess Kess — 31.37°N, 7.30°WKhudykovtsy Suite — 48.60°N, 26.13°ETorbrook — 45.00°N, 64.75°WMandagery Park — 33.20°S, 148.68°EGrès à Orthis monnieri — 48.00°N, 2.00°ENoulette — 50.50°N, 2.50°EAtafaitafa — 23.77°N, 5.33°ECano Grande — 10.50°N, 72.50°WErere — 2.00°S, 54.00°WErbslochgrauwacke — 50.98°N, 9.08°ERothäuser Grauwacke — 51.52°N, 10.47°E

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The named rock units Platyorthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platyorthis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Platyorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

571 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Platyorthis, 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

29 references

Each of the 62 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. 17 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 Platyorthis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Platyorthis 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.