Protoplatyrhina

No picture of Protoplatyrhina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Protoplatyrhina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhinobatoideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Rajiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Rajiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Rajiformes

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 37 of 37 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences89.8 Mya72.2 Mya94.5 Mya65.4 Mya

37 occurrences of Protoplatyrhina on record, most of them in the Late 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

37 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

Mesaverde — 44.08°N, 107.74°WMesaverde — 44.10°N, 107.75°WMesaverde — 44.17°N, 107.81°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJudith River — 48.03°N, 109.01°WJudith River — 47.79°N, 108.94°WJudith River — 48.01°N, 108.91°WJudith River — 47.74°N, 108.96°WFox Hills — 46.28°N, 100.52°WFox Hills — 46.26°N, 100.55°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 44.52°N, 102.39°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.32°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.36°WAguja — 28.94°N, 103.37°WKemp Clay — 33.21°N, 95.92°WEutaw — 32.38°N, 84.93°WNew Egypt — 40.09°N, 74.55°WMancos Shale — 39.00°N, 110.35°WPictured Cliffs Sandstone — 35.70°N, 107.00°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WPoint Lookout — 35.20°N, 107.05°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WAguja — 29.46°N, 103.56°WToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°W

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The named rock units Protoplatyrhina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Protoplatyrhina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Protoplatyrhina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Protoplatyrhina, 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 37 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 content0

No picture of Protoplatyrhina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Protoplatyrhina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protoplatyrhina 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 itRhinobatoidei through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Case 1978