Platyceras compressus

No picture of Platyceras compressus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Platyceras compressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatycerasPBDB
Diet
parasitePBDB, for Platyceras
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platyceras
Motility
facultatively mobile, epibiontPBDB, for Platyceras
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Platyceratidae

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382.31 Mya372.15 Mya388.5 Mya358.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Platyceras compressus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

2 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

Torquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WCürten — 51.81°N, 10.24°E

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

Platyceras compressus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Platyceras compressus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

94 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Platyceras compressus, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. 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

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No picture of Platyceras compressus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Platyceras compressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Platyceras compressus 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.

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What may have been alongside itPlatyceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1832)