Platymyoidea

Platymyoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LaternulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pandoroidea
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Laternulidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pandoroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 115 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 211.18 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 33 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 14 of 33 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 33 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 33 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 33 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 33 occurrencesLate Cretaceous214–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–195 Mya — about 4 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 4 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 4 occurrences185–180 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences180–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–166 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences132–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 5 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205.7 Mya89.8 Mya214 Mya69 Mya

33 occurrences of Platymyoidea on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

33 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

10 formations

Atherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WCoon Hollow — 45.66°N, 116.46°WCoon Hollow — 45.64°N, 116.48°WZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°EBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WSierra Santa Rosa — 30.72°N, 112.55°WNayband — 32.40°N, 57.45°EGoradongar — 23.50°N, 70.50°EFadalto Limestone — 46.08°N, 12.34°ETwin Creek Limestone — 42.61°N, 110.89°WFaïdja — 35.17°N, 1.78°E

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The named rock units Platymyoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platymyoidea and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Platymyoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

509 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Platymyoidea, 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

18 references

Each of the 33 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. 6 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 Platymyoidea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Platymyoidea 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 itLaternulidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1964