Platyceras dilatans
No picture of Platyceras dilatans 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 Platyceras dilatans, 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 most 6.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 393.47 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Platyceras dilatans 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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.
Platyceras dilatans and its relatives
DevonianWhere Platyceras dilatans and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Anthozoa1 site
- Australonema persimile1 site
- Barroisocaulus semiornata1 site
- Bellerophon angustomphalus1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Collina exquisitus1 site
- Crinodea indet.1 site
- Karpinskia1 site
- Loxonema1 site
- Loxonema rectangulare1 site
- Meandrella1 site
- Platyceras (Orthonychia) compressum1 site
- Platyceras humulus1 site
- Praenatica1 site
- Praenatica naticoides1 site
- Pseudotectus conspicuus1 site
- Stromatoporoidea1 site
- Trilobita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Platyceras dilatans, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Platyceras dilatans 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 Platyceras dilatans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platyceras dilatans 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 itPlatyceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perner 1911