Platypeltoides

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NileidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Nileidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 9.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 468 Mya.

Cambrian — about 21 of 40 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 19 of 40 occurrencesOrdovician498–497 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 4 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 4 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 4 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 2 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 2 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya477.1 Mya497.6 Mya467.4 Mya

40 occurrences of Platypeltoides on record. 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

40 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

13 formations

Kamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°EShenjiawan — 29.13°N, 110.95°ETrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°EShineton Shale — 52.63°N, 2.58°WShineton Shales — 52.63°N, 2.58°WAlum Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°EUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 116.00°ENyaiskii — 60.00°N, 118.00°EUgorskii — 60.00°N, 118.00°ELower Fezouata — 30.68°N, 6.18°WAlum — 59.14°N, 11.18°EMilina — 49.77°N, 13.80°EYinchupu — 28.81°N, 118.62°E

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The named rock units Platypeltoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Platypeltoides, 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 40 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Platypeltoides 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pribyl 1949