Platyostoma desmatum

No picture of Platyostoma desmatum 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 Platyostoma desmatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatyostomaPBDB
Diet
coprophagePBDB, for Platyceratidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platyceratidae
Motility
passively mobile, epibiontPBDB, for Platyceratidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Platyceratidae

Time the record covers

At most 2.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413.52 Mya410.12 Mya

2 occurrences of Platyostoma desmatum 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

2 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

2 formations

Glenerie Limestone — 42.02°N, 73.98°WPort Ewen — 40.53°N, 78.06°W

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The named rock units Platyostoma desmatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Platyostoma desmatum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Platyostoma desmatum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Platyostoma desmatum, 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

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. 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 Platyostoma desmatum 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 Platyostoma desmatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Platyostoma desmatum 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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What may have been alongside itPlatyostoma through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clarke 1904)