Poikilofusa spinata
No picture of Poikilofusa spinata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Poikilofusa spinata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PoikilofusaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Acritarcha
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Poikilofusa spinata 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Poikilofusa spinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Poikilofusa spinata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Poikilofusa spinata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Aechmina1 site
- Ambonychia1 site
- Amplexopraptus sp.1 site
- Belonechitina1 site
- Bythocypris cylindrica1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Cryptolithus tessellatus1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Dicellograptus1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Diplograptus1 site
- Geisonoceras1 site
- Hercochitina1 site
- Jonesella1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Lingula divulgata1 site
- Lonchodomas1 site
- Multiplicisphaeridium1 site
- Parenthatia1 site
- Prasopora1 site
- Primaspis1 site
- Primitia1 site
- Pseudulrichia1 site
- Tanuchitina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Poikilofusa spinata, 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
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Poikilofusa spinata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Poikilofusa spinata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Poikilofusa spinata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPoikilofusa through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Staplin et al. 1965