Neoplatystrophia deani

Neoplatystrophia deani

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeoplatystrophiaPBDB
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 most 4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.2 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovician449–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449.7 Mya444.7 Mya

14 occurrences of Neoplatystrophia deani 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

14 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

2 formations

Slade 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°WSholeshook — 51.81°N, 4.94°WSholeshook — 51.80°N, 4.55°WSholeshook — 51.81°N, 4.95°W

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The named rock units Neoplatystrophia deani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Neoplatystrophia deani and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Neoplatystrophia deani and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Neoplatystrophia deani, 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 reference

Each of the 14 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

Media content1

Picture of Neoplatystrophia deani

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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. Cocks 2014