Platysomus

Platysomus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived in the Carboniferous and Permian periods. Fossils have been found worldwide.

Platysomus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatysomidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 102 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 244.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 140 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 43 of 140 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 90 of 140 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 6 of 140 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 140 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–341 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences341–337 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–321 Mya — about 4 occurrences321–316 Mya — about 16 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 4 occurrences312–308 Mya — about 4 occurrences308–304 Mya — about 5 occurrences304–300 Mya — about 4 occurrences300–296 Mya — about 1 occurrence296–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–288 Mya — about 3 occurrences288–284 Mya — about 2 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 4 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 4 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 8 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 9 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 22 occurrences264–259 Mya — about 13 occurrences259–255 Mya — about 17 occurrences255–251 Mya — about 7 occurrences251–247 Mya — about 5 occurrences247–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–239 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences346.7 Mya244.4 Mya361 Mya239 Mya

140 occurrences of Platysomus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

140 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

49 formations

Amanakskaya — 53.37°N, 52.81°EAmanakskaya — 52.32°N, 54.40°EAmanakskaya — 52.26°N, 54.85°EAmanakskaya — 51.76°N, 54.38°EAmanakskaya — 52.67°N, 53.45°EAmanakskaya — 52.95°N, 53.83°EWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.87°N, 3.88°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.85°N, 3.83°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.83°N, 3.79°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.84°N, 3.73°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.93°N, 3.11°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.73°N, 1.58°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.64°N, 2.09°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 52.97°N, 3.09°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.20°N, 3.21°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.13°N, 3.10°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.21°N, 3.04°WRaisby — 54.63°N, 1.63°WRaisby — 54.69°N, 1.52°WRaisby — 55.05°N, 1.44°WPennine Middle Coal Measures — 53.00°N, 2.16°WPennine Middle Coal Measures — 52.99°N, 2.13°WPennine Middle Coal Measures — 53.49°N, 2.10°WPennine Middle Coal Measures — 53.45°N, 2.75°WBelebei — 53.65°N, 53.57°EBelebei — 52.65°N, 54.64°EBelebei — 52.52°N, 54.70°EKupferschiefer — 52.23°N, 7.96°EKupferschiefer — 50.98°N, 10.01°EIntinsky — 59.84°N, 56.52°EBaitugan — 55.89°N, 53.34°EBaitugan — 55.74°N, 52.03°EBaitugan — 55.70°N, 51.74°EKongressfjellet — 78.27°N, 16.97°EKongressfjellet — 78.24°N, 17.21°EZechstein — 51.23°N, 8.89°EZechstein — 51.49°N, 6.55°EBolshekinelskaya — 51.77°N, 55.37°EBolshekinelskaya — 52.14°N, 55.00°EBolshekinelskaya — 52.63°N, 53.78°EMalokinelskaya — 52.50°N, 53.69°EMalokinelskaya — 53.39°N, 52.64°EGarber Sandstone — 34.53°N, 98.89°WLower Coal Measures — 55.73°N, 3.83°WLower Coal Measures — 52.94°N, 1.31°WIsheevo — 55.04°N, 46.78°EPoldarsa — 60.58°N, 45.43°EWellington — 36.35°N, 97.43°WWellington — 36.30°N, 97.30°WSpeiser Shale — 38.69°N, 96.49°WSpeiser Shale — 37.25°N, 96.70°WGarber — 36.66°N, 97.69°WGarber — 34.30°N, 98.60°WPechishchi — 55.78°N, 48.93°EPechishchi — 58.64°N, 49.85°E'Second' — 55.03°N, 48.88°EBelebey — 55.70°N, 51.74°E

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The named rock units Platysomus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platysomus and its relatives

Permian

Where Platysomus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

684 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Platysomus, 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

50 references

Each of the 140 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. 38 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 content2

Picture of Platysomus

Credit
Haplochromis
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Platysomus parvulus · nms:g:1894.73.456

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1833