Platylichas robustus
No picture of Platylichas robustus 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 Platylichas robustus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatylichasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lichida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Lichidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453.9 Mya and 451.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Platylichas robustus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Platylichas robustus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platylichas robustus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Platylichas robustus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Caryocystites lagenalis2 sites
- Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata2 sites
- Illaenus gigas2 sites
- Parillaenus fallax2 sites
- Platylichas latus2 sites
- Actinopterinia semicircularis1 site
- Allumettoceras mjoesense1 site
- Ambonychinia cylindrica1 site
- Ambonychinia kullsbergensis1 site
- Ambonychinia magna1 site
- Ambonychinia megumbona1 site
- Ambonychinia subrotunda1 site
- Ambonychinia unisulcata1 site
- Beloitoceras stoermeri1 site
- Cameroceras1 site
- Cameroceras motsognir1 site
- Ceraurus latifrons1 site
- Cleionychia primitiva1 site
- Clothoceras thornquisti1 site
- Cornucrinus mirus1 site
- Cyathotheca suecica1 site
- Decoroproetus1 site
- Discoceras amtjaernense1 site
- Endoceras naekki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Platylichas robustus, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Platylichas robustus 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 Platylichas robustus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platylichas robustus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPlatylichas through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Warburg 1925