Polycope

Searched as Polycope pumicosa scleiferae. The Paleobiology Database treats Polycope as the accepted name.

Polycope

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 5.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 211.18 Mya and 205.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Polycope on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

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

Aksala — 61.07°N, 134.90°W

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The named rock units Polycope has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Polycope and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Polycope and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,087 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 224 sites for Polycope, 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 reference

Each 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

Media content1

Picture of Polycope

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Polycope 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 itPolycopidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.