Polycope pelta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolycopePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Myodocopida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Polycope
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Polycope
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 174.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 170.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 50 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 31 of 50 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 18 of 50 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–192 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 2 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–183 Mya — about 4 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 2 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 5 occurrences179–176 Mya — about 7 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 8 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 11 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 5 occurrences233.6 Mya174.7 Mya238 Mya170 Mya

50 occurrences of Polycope pelta on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

50 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

7 formations

Jurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°EBrian de Vère — 44.07°N, 1.74°EPóvoa da Lomba — 40.03°N, 8.47°WVale das Fontes — 40.03°N, 8.47°WSão Gião — 40.03°N, 8.47°WHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°E

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The named rock units Polycope pelta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polycope pelta and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Polycope pelta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

236 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Polycope pelta, 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

6 references

Each of the 50 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 Polycope pelta 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 Polycope pelta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polycope pelta 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 itPolycope through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer 1961