Polazzodus coronatus
No picture of Polazzodus coronatus 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 Polazzodus coronatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolazzodusPBDB
- Diet
- durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Polazzodus coronatus 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Polazzodus coronatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polazzodus coronatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Polazzodus coronatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Anguilliformes2 sites
- Beryciformes2 sites
- Chanidae2 sites
- Clupeiformes2 sites
- Enchodus2 sites
- Rhynchodercetis2 sites
- Angiospermae1 site
- Brachiphyllum sp.1 site
- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Cunninghamites elegans1 site
- Frenelopsis1 site
- Ginkgoales1 site
- Notosuchia1 site
- Pagiophyllum1 site
- Sphenolepis1 site
- Testudines1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Polazzodus coronatus, 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
2 references- The first record of a notosuchian crocodyliform from Italy1
- Polazzodus, gen. nov., A New Pycnodont Fish from the Late Cretaceous of Northeastern Italy1
Each of the 2 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. 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
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No picture of Polazzodus coronatus 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 Polazzodus coronatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polazzodus coronatus 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 itPolazzodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Poyato-Ariza 2010