Planolites serpens

No picture of Planolites serpens was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Planolites serpens firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlanolitesPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 520 Mya and 509.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCambrian520–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences520.5 Mya509.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Planolites serpens on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

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

Campito — 37.42°N, 118.19°WCampito — 37.31°N, 118.16°WHarkless — 37.29°N, 118.10°W

Loading coastlines…

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

Planolites serpens and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Planolites serpens and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Planolites serpens, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each 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

Media content0

No picture of Planolites serpens was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Planolites serpens firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Planolites serpens 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPlanolites through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Webby 1970)