Neoplatystrophia

Neoplatystrophia

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.9 Mya to 433.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 431.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 79 of 90 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 11 of 90 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 9 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 12 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 13 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 13 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 7 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453.9 Mya433.5 Mya458.7 Mya430.7 Mya

90 occurrences of Neoplatystrophia 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

90 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

34 formations

Kahula — 59.00°N, 26.00°EKahula — 59.25°N, 27.45°EKahula — 59.38°N, 26.40°EKahula — 59.35°N, 27.40°ESlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.81°N, 4.94°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.81°N, 4.78°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.79°N, 4.54°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.81°N, 4.55°WHilliste — 58.88°N, 23.02°EHilliste — 58.84°N, 23.06°ESholeshook — 51.81°N, 4.94°WSholeshook — 51.80°N, 4.55°WSholeshook — 51.81°N, 4.95°WJakšiai — 54.56°N, 22.83°EJakšiai — 54.47°N, 24.62°EJakšiai — 55.60°N, 26.47°EReynales — 43.17°N, 77.63°WVasalemma — 59.25°N, 27.45°EDysna — 55.57°N, 26.65°EJakšiai — 55.57°N, 26.65°EVarbola — 58.89°N, 23.40°EVarbola — 58.71°N, 23.76°EAluvere — 59.34°N, 27.41°EAluvere — 59.30°N, 27.51°EPagari — 59.31°N, 24.31°EPagari — 59.31°N, 24.43°EKeila — 59.30°N, 24.65°EAuleliai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EAuleliai — 55.55°N, 24.10°EViluciai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EViluciai — 55.55°N, 24.10°ERägavere — 59.13°N, 28.02°EJaani — 58.51°N, 22.00°EGryazno — 59.66°N, 29.57°EŠakiai — 54.56°N, 22.83°ESkagen — 60.88°N, 15.10°EMoldå — 60.88°N, 15.10°EKaimynai — 54.47°N, 24.62°EPaekna — 54.47°N, 24.62°EJohvi — 59.34°N, 27.41°E

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The named rock units Neoplatystrophia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neoplatystrophia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Neoplatystrophia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

323 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Neoplatystrophia, 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

17 references

Each of the 90 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. 5 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 Neoplatystrophia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Zuykov and Harper 2007