Platyostoma boggsi
No picture of Platyostoma boggsi 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 Platyostoma boggsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatyostomaPBDB
- Diet
- coprophagePBDB, for Platyceratidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Platyceratidae
- Motility
- passively mobile, epibiontPBDB, for Platyceratidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Platyceratidae
Time the record covers
At least 3.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 425 Mya.
4 occurrences of Platyostoma boggsi on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Platyostoma boggsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platyostoma boggsi and its relatives
SilurianWhere Platyostoma boggsi and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Murchisonia obtusangula4 sites
- Oriostoma3 sites
- Amphistrophia2 sites
- Amsdenina2 sites
- Anastrophia (Grayina) magnifica2 sites
- Ancillotoechia2 sites
- Borealarges mikulicorum2 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Caryogyps chattertoni2 sites
- Caryogyps grayi2 sites
- Chonetoidea2 sites
- Cliftonia2 sites
- Clorinda2 sites
- Cyrtia alatiformis2 sites
- Dalejina2 sites
- Dicoelosia2 sites
- Encrinurus2 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Ygerodiscus)2 sites
- Eospinatrypa2 sites
- Epitomyonia amplissima2 sites
- Epitomyonia clausula2 sites
- Euomphalopterus alatus2 sites
- Fascizentina rohri2 sites
- Flabellitesia kessei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Platyostoma boggsi, 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 4 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 Platyostoma boggsi 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 Platyostoma boggsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platyostoma boggsi 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 itPlatyostoma through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rohr et al. 1981)