Platycephalus iaiunus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatycephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes
Time the record covers
At least 3.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 45.7 Mya to 42.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 52 Mya to 39.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Platycephalus iaiunus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Platycephalus iaiunus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Platycephalus iaiunus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Conger davidsmithi4 sites
- Neoscombrops vetustus4 sites
- Serranidarum dentatus4 sites
- Tonganago fastigatus4 sites
- Tonganago wharenga4 sites
- Acropoma aurora3 sites
- Antigonia artata3 sites
- Aulopus pristinus3 sites
- Gnathophis flemingi3 sites
- Krebsiella aperta3 sites
- Macrurulus immanis3 sites
- Platycephalus parapercoides3 sites
- Pomadasyidarum krebsi3 sites
- Pterothrissus angulatus3 sites
- Rhynchoconger eocenicus3 sites
- Symphysanodon inamata3 sites
- Trachichthodes pulcher3 sites
- Ambassis simesi2 sites
- Ampheristus sinuocaudatus2 sites
- Cephalopholis aotearoa2 sites
- Dapalis antipodus2 sites
- Eomyctophum2 sites
- Eomyctophum broncus2 sites
- Epigonus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Platycephalus iaiunus, 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 referenceEach of the 4 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 Platycephalus iaiunus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Platycephalus iaiunus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platycephalus iaiunus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlatycephalus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans 2019