Platysolenites

Platysolenites is a genus of agglutinated foraminifera known from Ediacaran and lower Cambrian assemblages.

Platysolenites

Mai Seppel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BathysiphonidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bathysiphonidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bathysiphonidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 516.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 506.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 20 of 22 occurrencesCambrian638–633 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences633–629 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences629–624 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences624–620 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences620–615 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences615–611 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences611–606 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences606–602 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences602–597 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences597–593 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences593–589 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences589–584 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences584–580 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences580–575 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences575–571 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences571–566 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences566–562 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences562–557 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences557–553 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences553–548 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences548–544 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences544–540 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences540–535 Mya — about 2 occurrences535–531 Mya — about 2 occurrences531–526 Mya — about 1 occurrence526–522 Mya — about 11 occurrences522–517 Mya — about 3 occurrences517–513 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences513–508 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences508–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538.8 Mya516.2 Mya638 Mya504 Mya

22 occurrences of Platysolenites 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

22 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

15 formations

Breivik — 70.58°N, 28.18°EMedvezhya — 71.33°N, 99.50°EMedvezhya — 70.14°N, 114.00°EChapel Island — 47.00°N, 56.00°WEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.76°ETiskre — 59.43°N, 24.73°ECzarna Shale — 50.65°N, 20.93°ELower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WKotodzha — 59.40°N, 85.67°ERaiga — 59.40°N, 85.67°ECampito — 37.42°N, 118.18°WNemakit-Daldyn — 70.14°N, 114.00°ELomonosov — 59.73°N, 29.16°ESiverskaya — 59.49°N, 30.11°ELezhskaya — 58.62°N, 40.26°ELontova — 59.43°N, 24.76°E

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

Platysolenites and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Platysolenites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Platysolenites, 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

11 references

Each of the 22 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. 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 Platysolenites

Credit
Mai Seppel
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBathysiphonidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1860