Platysomidae

Platysomidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatysomiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 145 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 211 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 68 of 211 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 132 of 211 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 8 of 211 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 211 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 211 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 211 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–351 Mya — about 3 occurrences351–345 Mya — about 3 occurrences345–340 Mya — about 3 occurrences340–334 Mya — about 9 occurrences334–329 Mya — about 2 occurrences329–323 Mya — about 2 occurrences323–318 Mya — about 14 occurrences318–312 Mya — about 12 occurrences312–307 Mya — about 5 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 8 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 6 occurrences296–290 Mya — about 5 occurrences290–285 Mya — about 3 occurrences285–279 Mya — about 7 occurrences279–274 Mya — about 11 occurrences274–268 Mya — about 20 occurrences268–263 Mya — about 43 occurrences263–257 Mya — about 28 occurrences257–252 Mya — about 16 occurrences252–246 Mya — about 7 occurrences246–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–207 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences207–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence346.7 Mya201.4 Mya362 Mya196 Mya

211 occurrences of Platysomidae on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

211 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

66 formations

Amanakskaya — 53.37°N, 52.81°EAmanakskaya — 52.32°N, 54.40°EAmanakskaya — 52.26°N, 54.85°EAmanakskaya — 51.76°N, 54.38°EAmanakskaya — 52.67°N, 53.45°EAmanakskaya — 52.58°N, 53.74°EAmanakskaya — 52.95°N, 53.83°EWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WBelebei — 53.65°N, 53.57°EBelebei — 52.65°N, 54.64°EBelebei — 52.52°N, 54.70°EBelebei — 52.58°N, 54.42°EScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.87°N, 3.88°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.85°N, 3.83°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.83°N, 3.79°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.84°N, 3.73°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.93°N, 3.11°WMalokinelskaya — 52.50°N, 53.69°EMalokinelskaya — 53.39°N, 52.64°EIsheevo — 55.78°N, 48.93°EIsheevo — 55.04°N, 46.78°EPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.73°N, 1.58°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.64°N, 2.09°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 52.97°N, 3.09°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.20°N, 3.21°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.13°N, 3.10°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.21°N, 3.04°WRaisby — 54.63°N, 1.63°WRaisby — 54.69°N, 1.52°WRaisby — 55.05°N, 1.44°WPennine Middle Coal Measures — 53.00°N, 2.16°WPennine Middle Coal Measures — 52.99°N, 2.13°WPennine Middle Coal Measures — 53.49°N, 2.10°WPennine Middle Coal Measures — 53.45°N, 2.75°WKupferschiefer — 52.23°N, 7.96°EKupferschiefer — 50.98°N, 10.01°EWaaiport — 33.26°S, 23.07°EWaaiport — 33.23°S, 25.13°EWaaiport — 33.21°S, 23.05°EWaaiport — 33.28°S, 23.48°EIntinsky — 59.84°N, 56.52°EWellington — 36.35°N, 97.43°WWellington — 36.74°N, 97.42°WWellington — 36.30°N, 97.30°WBolshekinelskaya — 51.77°N, 55.37°EBolshekinelskaya — 52.02°N, 56.31°EBolshekinelskaya — 52.14°N, 55.00°EBolshekinelskaya — 52.63°N, 53.78°EGullane — 56.04°N, 2.83°WGullane — 55.98°N, 3.21°WBaytugan — 56.01°N, 52.71°EBaitugan — 55.89°N, 53.34°EBaitugan — 55.74°N, 52.03°EBaitugan — 55.70°N, 51.74°EKongressfjellet — 78.27°N, 16.97°EKongressfjellet — 78.24°N, 17.21°EZechstein — 51.23°N, 8.89°EZechstein — 51.49°N, 6.55°EGlencartholm Volcanic Beds — 55.20°N, 3.07°WPechishchi — 55.78°N, 48.93°EPechishchi — 58.64°N, 49.85°EBelebey — 55.70°N, 51.74°EBelebey — 52.66°N, 54.72°EGarber Sandstone — 34.53°N, 98.89°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 56.03°N, 3.14°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.93°N, 3.47°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.89°N, 3.17°W

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The named rock units Platysomidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platysomidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Platysomidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

770 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 144 sites for Platysomidae, 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

71 references

Each of the 211 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. 59 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

Picture of Platysomidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Platysomidae 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.