Polyentactinia aranea
No picture of Polyentactinia aranea 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 Polyentactinia aranea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolyentactiniaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Polyentactinia aranea on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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.
Polyentactinia aranea and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Polyentactinia aranea and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Astroentactinia radiata2 sites
- Albaillella1 site
- Albaillella indensis1 site
- Albaillella undulata1 site
- Astroentactinia biaciculata1 site
- Astroentactinia mirousi1 site
- Ceratoikiscum1 site
- Ceratoikiscum avimexpectans1 site
- Ceratoikiscum berggreni1 site
- Ceratoikiscum umbraculum1 site
- Cubaxonium octaedrospongiosum1 site
- Cyrtisphaeractenium rurae1 site
- Entactinaria1 site
- Entactinia tortispina1 site
- Entactinosphaera altasulcata1 site
- Latentifistula1 site
- Meschedea pyramispinosa1 site
- Palaeolithocyclia1 site
- Palaeoscenidium cladophorum1 site
- Pluristratoentactinia1 site
- Polyentactinia polygonia1 site
- Popofskyellum pulchrum1 site
- Pylentonema antiqua1 site
- Stigmosphaerostylus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Polyentactinia aranea, 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 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. 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 Polyentactinia aranea 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 Polyentactinia aranea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polyentactinia aranea 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 itPolyentactinia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gourmelon 1986