Proleptochiton laterodepressus
No picture of Proleptochiton laterodepressus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Proleptochiton laterodepressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProleptochitonPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 339.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Proleptochiton laterodepressus 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
3 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
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The named rock units Proleptochiton laterodepressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Proleptochiton laterodepressus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Proleptochiton laterodepressus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Archegonus (Phillibole)3 sites
- Goniatites sphaericostriatus3 sites
- Selenimyalina3 sites
- Dimorphoceras2 sites
- Hibernicoceras mediocre2 sites
- Lingula carbonaria2 sites
- Palaeoneilo2 sites
- Pleurodictyum2 sites
- Posidonia becheri2 sites
- Coleolus1 site
- Crossopodia1 site
- Crurithyris urei1 site
- Dolorthoceras1 site
- Edmondia sulcata1 site
- Eucochlis1 site
- Fenestella plebeja1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Girtyoceras intracostatum1 site
- Glyphiolobus lunula1 site
- Goniatites elegans1 site
- Hibernicoceras1 site
- Laevidentalium1 site
- Leiorhynchus1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Proleptochiton laterodepressus, 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 3 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 Proleptochiton laterodepressus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Proleptochiton laterodepressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proleptochiton laterodepressus 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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What may have been alongside itProleptochiton through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bergenhayn 1945)