Platysomus schultzei
No picture of Platysomus schultzei 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 Platysomus schultzei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatysomusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 4.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Platysomus schultzei on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
- Wild Cow Formation · Madera Group4
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The named rock units Platysomus schultzei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platysomus schultzei and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Platysomus schultzei and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Acanthodes4 sites
- Amphicentrum jurgenai4 sites
- Carbonita3 sites
- Coelacanthidae3 sites
- Darwinula3 sites
- Dunbarella3 sites
- Fish indet.3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Geisina3 sites
- Plantae indet.3 sites
- Platysomidae3 sites
- Actinopterygii2 sites
- Amphibiae indet.2 sites
- Annelida ? indet.2 sites
- Cordaitales2 sites
- Crustacea indet.2 sites
- Diplostraca2 sites
- Dipnoi indet.2 sites
- Elasmobranchii2 sites
- Eurypterida indet.2 sites
- Fenestrata2 sites
- Ferns indet.2 sites
- Globivalvulina2 sites
- Insecta indet.2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Platysomus schultzei, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Platysomus schultzei 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 Platysomus schultzei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platysomus schultzei 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlatysomus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zidek 1992