Plafkerium

No picture of Plafkerium 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 Plafkerium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CapnuchosphaeridaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 198 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 23 of 198 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 73 of 198 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 100 of 198 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 198 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 198 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences292–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–279 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–263 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences259–255 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences255–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251–246 Mya — about 25 occurrences246–242 Mya — about 42 occurrences242–238 Mya — about 25 occurrences238–234 Mya — about 5 occurrences234–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence226–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 3 occurrences214–209 Mya — about 5 occurrences209–205 Mya — about 12 occurrences205–201 Mya — about 76 occurrences201–197 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences197–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247 Mya201.4 Mya296 Mya172 Mya

198 occurrences of Plafkerium on record, most of them in the Late 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

198 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

8 formations

Sandilands — 53.91°N, 133.16°WSandilands — 52.76°N, 131.57°WSandilands — 53.03°N, 131.88°WSan Hipolito — 29.99°N, 113.98°WFang Chert — 19.53°N, 98.96°EFields Creek — 44.33°N, 119.28°WBuchenstein — 45.75°N, 11.33°EGabbs — 38.49°N, 118.09°WPotiki Siltstone — 46.38°S, 169.78°EGokdere — 37.59°N, 30.80°E

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The named rock units Plafkerium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plafkerium and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Plafkerium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

253 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Plafkerium, 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

28 references

Each of the 198 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. 15 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 content0

No picture of Plafkerium 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 Plafkerium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plafkerium 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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What may have been alongside itCapnuchosphaeridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pessagno et al. 1979