Platyostoma insolita
No picture of Platyostoma insolita was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 insolita, 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 most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Platyostoma insolita 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 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Lime Creek Formation · Hackberry Group1
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The named rock units Platyostoma insolita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platyostoma insolita and its relatives
DevonianWhere Platyostoma insolita and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Bensbergia pulchra1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Holopea iowaensis1 site
- Kitikamispira perstrialis1 site
- Orecopia circinatus1 site
- Philoxene argutus1 site
- Platyostoma antiquuis1 site
- Straparollus cyclostomus portlandensis1 site
- Trachydomia praecursor rockfordensis1 site
- Turbonopsis spiculatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Platyostoma insolita, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Platyostoma insolita was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 insolita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platyostoma insolita 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 DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Webster 1906)