Platystrophia dentata

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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 least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 451.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.4 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
36 occurrences of Platystrophia dentata 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
36 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
21 formations
- Kahula Formation4
- Johvi Formation3
- Steinvika Limestone Formation2
- Aluvere Formation2
- Hirmuse Formation1
- Väo Formation1
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The named rock units Platystrophia dentata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Platystrophia dentata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Platystrophia dentata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
236 taxa- Sowerbyella12 sites
- Nicolella10 sites
- Porambonites9 sites
- Cyrtonotella7 sites
- Onniella7 sites
- Platystrophia chama7 sites
- Bilobia musca6 sites
- Chasmops6 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) rugosoides6 sites
- Orthisocrania6 sites
- Ristnacrinus marinus6 sites
- Saukrodictya6 sites
- Virucrinus kegelensis6 sites
- Biscupina dorsata5 sites
- Cyclocyclicus5 sites
- Echinosphaerites5 sites
- Echinosphaerites aurantium5 sites
- Mastopora concava5 sites
- Neoplatystrophia lynx5 sites
- Paucicrura5 sites
- Bekkerina dorsata4 sites
- Cremnorthis4 sites
- Howellites wesenbergensis4 sites
- Leptaena4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Platystrophia dentata, 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
12 references- The geology of the Baltic Republics11
- New brachiopods from the Jõhvi, Keila and Vasalemma stages11
- Lithology and Fauna of the Caradoc series type sections in North Estonia3
- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway, 28. Lithostratigraphy of the Steinvika Limestone Formation, Landesund-Skien district2
- New data on the distribution of brachiopods in the Johvi Stage of North Estonia2
- Upper Sandbian–lower Katian bio- and chemostratigraphy in the Pajevonys-13 core section, Lithuania1
- Стратиграфія ордовику Придністров’я (Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transnistria) (= Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transdniestria)1
- Oandu stage (Caradoc) in central North Estonia1
- A review of the morphological features affecting the classification of clitambonitidine brachiopods1
- The Stratigraphy and Structure of Ordovician Rocks of the South - East Part of the Baltic Basin (Druksiu Area)1
- Locality 2 : 4 Ristna Cliff1
- Stratigrafia viruskoy i kharjuskoy seriy (ordovik) Sevemoy Estonii. [Stratigraphy of the Viruan and Harjuan Series (Ordovician) in North Estonia]1
Each of the 36 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 dentata
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No 3D scan of Platystrophia dentata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pander 1830