Platyspondylus foureaui

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatyspondylusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 50 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144 Mya93 Mya

4 occurrences of Platyspondylus foureaui on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

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

Continental Intercalaire — 28.50°N, 9.57°EContinental Intercalaire — 28.53°N, 9.05°EEchkar — 17.71°N, 5.80°E

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The named rock units Platyspondylus foureaui has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platyspondylus foureaui and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Platyspondylus foureaui and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Platyspondylus foureaui, 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

2 references

Each 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 Platyspondylus foureaui 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 Platyspondylus foureaui, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Platyspondylus foureaui 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 itPlatyspondylus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haug 1905