Platyostoma lineata

No picture of Platyostoma lineata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 lineata, 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 least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 368.5 Mya.

Devonian — about 82 of 82 occurrencesDevonian411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 3 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 4 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 4 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 4 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 15 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 16 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 16 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 15 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387.95 Mya372.15 Mya411.5 Mya367.7 Mya

82 occurrences of Platyostoma lineata 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

82 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

14 formations

Ludlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLudlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WLudlowville — 42.75°N, 76.77°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WMoscow — 42.71°N, 78.94°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.69°N, 76.74°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WJaycox — 42.85°N, 77.83°WJaycox — 42.89°N, 77.70°WJaycox — 42.82°N, 77.29°WJaycox — 42.76°N, 76.97°WKnoppenbiessen — 50.97°N, 7.17°EFloresta-Labateca — 5.85°N, 72.88°WKanouse — 41.35°N, 74.11°WTully — 42.74°N, 75.88°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WColumbus Limestone — 40.21°N, 83.18°WJennings — 40.44°N, 77.00°WSt. Laurent — 37.52°N, 89.36°WSelinsgrove — 40.80°N, 75.64°W

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The named rock units Platyostoma lineata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platyostoma lineata and its relatives

Devonian

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

Found in the same rock

577 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Platyostoma lineata, 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

17 references

Each of the 82 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. 5 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No picture of Platyostoma lineata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 lineata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1842)