Platyceras vetusta

No picture of Platyceras vetusta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 vetusta, 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 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 368.5 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 5 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous373–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368.5 Mya335.9 Mya373 Mya329.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Platyceras vetusta on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

5 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

3 formations

Feltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WRongxian — 25.33°N, 110.26°ELiscarroll Limestone — 51.89°N, 8.47°W

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

Platyceras vetusta and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Platyceras vetusta and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

200 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Platyceras vetusta, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 Platyceras vetusta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 vetusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Platyceras vetusta 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1829)