Polycaulodus sp.

No picture of Polycaulodus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Polycaulodus sp. 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.

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 445.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 12 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468 Mya457.3 Mya477.7 Mya444.9 Mya

12 occurrences of Polycaulodus sp. 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

12 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

4 formations

Bromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WXia Majiagou — 40.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 35.00°N, 112.00°ESanta Gertrudis — 25.00°S, 65.00°WBighorn — 44.15°N, 106.70°W

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The named rock units Polycaulodus sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polycaulodus sp. and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Polycaulodus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

94 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Polycaulodus sp., 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Polycaulodus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Polycaulodus sp. 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 Polycaulodus sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.