Platyzona

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniasmatidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 251.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 22 of 70 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 47 of 70 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 70 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 1 occurrence338–335 Mya — about 3 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 7 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 4 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 1 occurrence310–307 Mya — about 1 occurrence307–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–297 Mya — about 3 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 4 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 2 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 1 occurrence287–284 Mya — about 1 occurrence284–281 Mya — about 3 occurrences281–278 Mya — about 4 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 4 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 4 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 4 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 2 occurrences256–252 Mya — about 6 occurrences252–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences335.4 Mya251.902 Mya345 Mya249 Mya

70 occurrences of Platyzona 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

70 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

29 formations

Shakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.07°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.37°N, 103.22°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.78°N, 105.93°WBone Spring — 31.48°N, 104.87°WHeshan — 23.77°N, 108.86°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°ECathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.29°WSisophon — 13.05°N, 103.06°ESisophon — 13.00°N, 103.00°ESalem — 38.60°N, 86.02°WSalem — 39.19°N, 86.57°WSalem — 38.24°N, 85.98°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WHotwells — 51.22°N, 0.63°WH. S. Lee — 4.30°N, 101.15°EChangxing — 22.42°N, 107.70°EDiamond Peak — 39.48°N, 115.45°WGlen Dean — 37.37°N, 88.97°WDaye — 29.17°N, 117.35°EPequop — 39.04°N, 114.90°WHueco — 31.85°N, 105.97°WHess — 30.37°N, 103.15°WAkasaka — 35.39°N, 136.58°ENoonkanbah — 18.40°S, 124.62°EChanghsing — 27.75°N, 100.66°EHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WDanny Bridge — 53.77°N, 1.92°W

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The named rock units Platyzona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Platyzona and its relatives

Permian

Where Platyzona and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,628 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Platyzona, 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

22 references

Each of the 70 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. 10 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Platyzona 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knight 1945