Platystega depressa
No picture of Platystega depressa 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 Platystega depressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatystegaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 248.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Platystega depressa on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Platystega depressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platystega depressa and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Platystega depressa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Acrorhabdus asplundi1 site
- Acrorhabdus bertili1 site
- Acrorhabdus latistriatus1 site
- Aphaneramma rostratum1 site
- Axelia robusta1 site
- Birgeria mougeoti1 site
- Boreosomus reuterskioldi1 site
- Lyrocephaliscus euri1 site
- Mastodonsauridae1 site
- Mylacanthus lobatus1 site
- Mylacanthus spinosus1 site
- Palaeobates polaris1 site
- Peltostega erici1 site
- Pygopterus degeeri1 site
- Sassenia tuberculata1 site
- Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus1 site
- Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) ornatus1 site
- Saurichthys hamiltoni1 site
- Scleracanthus asper1 site
- Teffichthys woodwardi1 site
- Temnospondyli1 site
- Wimania sinuosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Platystega depressa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 Platystega depressa 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 Platystega depressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platystega depressa 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 itPlatystega through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wiman 1914