Platypygus

No picture of Platypygus 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 Platypygus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CassiduloidaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Cassiduloida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cassiduloida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Cassiduloida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48 Mya20.45 Mya56.8 Mya15.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Platypygus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

2 formations

El Chacay — 47.50°S, 71.75°WEl Chacay — 47.53°S, 71.97°WCasamayor — 47.72°S, 66.70°W

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

Platypygus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Platypygus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Platypygus, 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

2 references

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 content0

No picture of Platypygus 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 Platypygus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Platypygus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCassiduloida through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Loriol 1902