Multicostella platys

Multicostella platys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MulticostellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 22 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 73 of 73 occurrencesOrdovician472–471 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 4 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471.8 Mya449 Mya

73 occurrences of Multicostella platys on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

73 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

7 formations

Crown Point — 44.87°N, 73.48°WCrown Point — 44.62°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.22°N, 81.36°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.10°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.32°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.56°WBenbolt — 37.11°N, 81.52°WBenbolt — 37.27°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.67°WValcour — 44.61°N, 73.41°WValcour — 44.95°N, 73.38°WDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.44°WLaval — 45.48°N, 73.90°WAylmer — 45.55°N, 75.29°WAthens — 36.29°N, 83.03°W

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The named rock units Multicostella platys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Multicostella platys and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Multicostella platys and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Multicostella platys, 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

6 references

Each of the 73 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

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Picture of Multicostella platys

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No 3D scan of Multicostella platys 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1859)