Platytrochus

Platytrochus

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
TurbinoliinaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 56 occurrencesPaleocene — about 7 of 56 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 33 of 56 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 56 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 56 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 56 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

56 occurrences of Platytrochus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

56 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

Gosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.51°N, 87.89°WWills Point — 30.08°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 30.11°N, 97.32°WWills Point — 30.18°N, 97.48°WWills Point — 30.27°N, 97.43°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.15°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WClaiborne Sand — 31.53°N, 87.50°WPort Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°ELisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WLuza — 49.10°N, 31.97°ELa Quinta — 17.18°N, 92.63°WBarnwell Sand — 33.56°N, 81.72°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WLodo — 36.36°N, 120.44°WUpper Bhuban — 23.73°N, 92.73°E

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The named rock units Platytrochus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platytrochus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Platytrochus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

443 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Platytrochus, 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

20 references

Each of the 56 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. 8 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 content1

Picture of Platytrochus

Credit
Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Platytrochus 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 itTurbinoliinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848