Platysiphon

No picture of Platysiphon was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Platysiphon itself, so it was not used. 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 Platysiphon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProterocameroceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Endocerida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Endocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Endocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 30 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician — about 11 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487.4 Mya456.7 Mya

11 occurrences of Platysiphon on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

11 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

3 formations

Croisaphuill — 58.62°N, 4.87°WCroisaphuill — 58.56°N, 4.78°WCroisaphuill — 58.51°N, 4.80°WBen Suardal Limestone — 57.22°N, 5.92°WBen Suardal Limestone — 57.21°N, 6.02°WRockdale Run — 39.63°N, 77.82°W

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

Platysiphon and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Platysiphon and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

45 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Platysiphon, 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

2 references

Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Platysiphon was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Platysiphon itself, so it was not used.

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

No 3D scan of Platysiphon 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 itProterocameroceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flower 1956