Platystrophia costata

Rubel, Madis · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- PlatystrophiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Platystrophia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Platystrophia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Platystrophia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 472.1 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Platystrophia costata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Platystrophia costata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Platystrophia costata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Platystrophia costata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Bolboporites uncinata1 site
- Dittopora annulata1 site
- Glyptograptus1 site
- Gonambonites imbricatus1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Leoniorthis rubeli1 site
- Lycophoria nucella1 site
- Orthis callactis1 site
- Platystrophia putilovensis1 site
- Progonambonites inflexus1 site
- Rowellella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Platystrophia costata, 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
5 references- Platystrophia (Orthida) and new related Ordovician and Early Silurian brachiopod genera2
- Platystrophia (Orthida, Brachiopoda) from the Arenig and Lowermost Llanvirn of Northwestern Russia2
- Brakhiopody nadsemejstv Orthacea, Dalmanellacea i Syntrophiacea iz nizhnego ordovika Pribaltiki [Lower Ordovician brachiopods of the superfamilies Orthacea, Dalmanellacea and Syntrophiacea of the Eastern Baltic]2
- A new Platystrophia-like brachiopod genus from Ordovician Boda Limestone of Dalarna, Sweden1
- Locality 4 : 2 Ontika Clint1
Each of the 8 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 Platystrophia costata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Rubel, Madis
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Platystrophia costata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPlatystrophia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pander 1830)