Platylisania

Platylisania

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LisaniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Lisaniidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 2.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 503 Mya and 500.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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3 occurrences of Platylisania on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

3 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

1 formation

Aktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°E

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

Platylisania and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Platylisania and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Platylisania, 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 reference

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Platylisania

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Platylisania 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 itLisaniidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang and Jell 1987