Plataspella anatina

No picture of Plataspella anatina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plataspella anatina 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.

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 16 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences497.5 Mya486.4 Mya

16 occurrences of Plataspella anatina 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

16 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

1 formation

Wilberns — 30.82°N, 98.37°WWilberns — 30.68°N, 98.33°WWilberns — 30.64°N, 98.26°WWilberns — 30.26°N, 98.58°WWilberns — 30.51°N, 98.73°WWilberns — 31.00°N, 99.26°W

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

Plataspella anatina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Plataspella anatina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Plataspella anatina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 16 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

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No picture of Plataspella anatina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plataspella anatina 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.

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.