Pictatella polita
No picture of Pictatella polita 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 Pictatella polita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PictatellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 266.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pictatella polita 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pictatella polita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pictatella polita and its relatives
PermianWhere Pictatella polita and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Cavernella nitidaeformis1 site
- Dyscritella spinigeriformis1 site
- Dyscritellina multispinosa1 site
- Fenestella kuloyensis1 site
- Parafenestralia arborescens1 site
- Parapolypora sparsa1 site
- Polypora ellipticopora1 site
- Polypora keyserlingi1 site
- Pseudobatostomella decora1 site
- Rectifenestella microretiformis1 site
- Rectifenestella permulta1 site
- Reteporidra atarensis1 site
- Reteporidra hexagona1 site
- Rhabdomeson noinskyi1 site
- Rhombopora ornata1 site
- Streblotrypa (Streblascopora) fasciculata1 site
- Wjatkella wjatkensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pictatella polita, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pictatella polita 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 Pictatella polita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pictatella polita 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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What may have been alongside itPictatella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shishova 1964)