Platypeltoides (Troedssonia)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatypeltoidesPBDB
- 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 most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
14 occurrences- Cambrian88%
- Ordovician12%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) and its relatives
CambrianWhere Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Apatokephalus5 sites
- Euloma5 sites
- Niobe (Niobella)4 sites
- Prooneotodus4 sites
- Cordylodus intermedius3 sites
- Cordylodus proavus3 sites
- Eoconodontus notchpeakensis3 sites
- Glaphurus3 sites
- Harpidoides3 sites
- Hispidodontus3 sites
- Kaufmannella3 sites
- Macropyge3 sites
- Phakelodus tenuis3 sites
- Amzasskiella2 sites
- Kaltykelina2 sites
- Teridontus nakamurai2 sites
- Apheorthis vicina1 site
- Bienvillia tetragonalis1 site
- Clavatellus1 site
- Dichelepyge1 site
- Finkelnburgia1 site
- Harpioides assoensis1 site
- Hirsurtodontus cf. simplex1 site
- Hirsurtodontus cf. triangularis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Platypeltoides (Troedssonia), 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
5 references- Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China7
- The new Ordovician stage standard as applied to the stratigraphic units of the western Altai–Sayan Folded Area3
- Upper Cambrian biostratigraphy and trilobite faunas of the Cili-Taoyuan area, northwestern Hunan, China2
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- Late late Cambrian and earliest Ordovician trilobites of Jiangshan-Changshan area, Zhejiang1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) 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 Platypeltoides (Troedssonia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) 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 itPlatypeltoides through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Poletaeva 1960)