Platyceratidae

Platyceratidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This family may belong in the Patellogastropoda or the Neritimorpha.

Platyceratidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatyceratoideaPBDB
Diet
coprophagePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
passively mobile, epibiontPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 424 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Ordovician — about 280 of 1495 occurrencesSilurian — about 339 of 1495 occurrencesDevonian — about 573 of 1495 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 230 of 1495 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 68 of 1495 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1495 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 1495 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 1495 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1495 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 1495 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 1495 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 1495 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1495 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 1495 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 1495 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 1495 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 1495 occurrences480–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–449 Mya — about 182 occurrences449–434 Mya — about 207 occurrences434–418 Mya — about 236 occurrences418–403 Mya — about 104 occurrences403–387 Mya — about 187 occurrences387–371 Mya — about 248 occurrences371–356 Mya — about 42 occurrences356–340 Mya — about 126 occurrences340–325 Mya — about 63 occurrences325–309 Mya — about 12 occurrences309–294 Mya — about 16 occurrences294–278 Mya — about 20 occurrences278–263 Mya — about 25 occurrences263–247 Mya — about 19 occurrences247–232 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences232–216 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences216–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences458.2 Mya33.9 Mya480 Mya14 Mya

1,495 occurrences of Platyceratidae 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

1,495 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

394 formations

Ludlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WLudlowville — 42.75°N, 76.77°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.75°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WOnondaga — 40.48°N, 78.27°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.78°N, 74.33°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.08°WOnondaga — 42.82°N, 74.82°WOnondaga — 42.00°N, 74.00°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.33°N, 86.67°WMoscow — 42.71°N, 78.94°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 76.03°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 75.05°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WKopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EKopanina — 50.67°N, 15.17°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.33°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.10°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°EKopanina — 49.94°N, 14.19°ETorquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.72°WRochester Shale — 43.22°N, 76.82°WRochester Shale — 39.65°N, 78.76°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.06°WWaynesville — 39.33°N, 84.07°WWaynesville — 38.77°N, 85.36°WWaynesville — 39.57°N, 84.03°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.23°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.97°N, 84.21°WLexington Limestone — 37.90°N, 84.27°WLexington Limestone — 38.35°N, 84.86°WSunset — 39.43°N, 84.60°WSunset — 39.33°N, 84.07°WSunset — 38.50°N, 83.76°WSunset — 39.34°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.37°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.54°N, 84.34°WSunset — 39.41°N, 84.50°WSunset — 39.03°N, 83.85°WColumbus Limestone — 40.21°N, 83.18°WColumbus Limestone — 40.11°N, 83.14°WCalcaire d’Erbray — 47.66°N, 1.32°WDunleith — 42.02°N, 93.45°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WOregonia — 39.34°N, 84.95°WOregonia — 39.48°N, 84.07°WOregonia — 39.54°N, 84.34°WOregonia — 39.13°N, 84.60°WOregonia — 39.33°N, 84.07°WOregonia — 38.58°N, 83.70°WOregonia — 39.03°N, 83.85°WSkaneateles — 42.97°N, 76.44°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.29°WWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WTin Mountain — 36.33°N, 116.52°WTin Mountain — 36.54°N, 117.04°WTin Mountain — 36.76°N, 117.48°WTin Mountain — 36.39°N, 117.43°WTin Mountain — 36.74°N, 117.45°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.01°N, 84.45°WFairview — 39.03°N, 84.51°WFairview — 38.68°N, 83.79°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.17°N, 84.12°WCorryville — 39.30°N, 84.40°W

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The named rock units Platyceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 370 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 120 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platyceratidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Platyceratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

2,177 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,057 sites for Platyceratidae, and this reads 240 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

357 references

Each of the 1,495 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. 345 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Platyceratidae

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Platyceratidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Hall 1859