Platysolenites antiquissimus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatysolenitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bathysiphonidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bathysiphonidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 529 Mya to 516.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 506.5 Mya.
15 occurrences of Platysolenites antiquissimus 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
15 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
12 formations
- Breivik Formation2
- Medvezhya Formation2
- Emyaksin Formation2
- Czarna Shale Formation1
- Lower Comley Formation1
- Chapel Island Formation1
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The named rock units Platysolenites antiquissimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platysolenites antiquissimus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Platysolenites antiquissimus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Aldanella attleborensis4 sites
- Anabarella plana4 sites
- Fomitchella infundabiliformis4 sites
- Khetatheca cotuiensis4 sites
- Oelandiella korobkovi4 sites
- Sabellidites cambriensis4 sites
- Securiconus simus4 sites
- Anabarites biplicatus3 sites
- Anabarites kelleri3 sites
- Hyolithellus3 sites
- Lopochites3 sites
- Orthothecida3 sites
- Anabarites hexasulcatus2 sites
- Anabarites tristichus2 sites
- Halkieria2 sites
- Ladatheca cylindrica2 sites
- Purella cristata2 sites
- Selindeochrea missarzhevskyi2 sites
- Selindeochrea ternaria2 sites
- Turcutheca2 sites
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) comleyensis1 site
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) ellipsocephaloides1 site
- Acrothyra1 site
- Acrothyra sera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Platysolenites antiquissimus, 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
8 references- Terreneuvian stratigraphy and faunas from the Anabar Uplift, Siberia5
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)3
- A biota of Ediacaran aspect from lower Cambrian strata on the Digermul Peninsula, Arctic Norway2
- Ediacaran-type non-mineralized tube-dwelling organisms persisted into the early Cambrian (Terreneuvian) in Baltica1
- The Placentian Series: Appearance of the oldest skeletalized faunas in southeastern Newfoundland1
- The Early Cambrian Worm Tube Onuphionella from California and Nevada1
- The Lower Cambrian microfauna of Comley and Rushton, Shropshire, England1
- Jednostki litostratygraficzne kambru i gornego prekambru Gor Swietokrzyskich [Cambrian and Upper Precambrian lithostratigraphic units in the Holy Cross Mountains]1
Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Platysolenites antiquissimus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Platysolenites antiquissimus 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 itPlatysolenites through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1860