Polyphylloseris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ComoseridaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 53 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 47 of 53 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 53 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 53 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 4 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 5 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 6 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 13 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 7 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 6 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152.21 Mya72.2 Mya160 Mya64 Mya

53 occurrences of Polyphylloseris on record, most of them in the Early 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

53 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

19 formations

Zapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WVillarroya de los Pinares — 40.57°N, 0.72°WVillarroya de los Pinares — 40.53°N, 0.70°WLlacova — 40.47°N, 0.05°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.80°N, 141.97°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°EEspinazo del Diablo — 29.44°N, 109.46°WCumburindio — 18.52°N, 100.93°WSchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°ETitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WLangshan — 33.23°N, 79.80°EGlen Rose Limestone — 30.00°N, 98.20°WDevils Racecourse — 18.22°N, 77.00°WSan Juan Raya — 18.32°N, 97.63°WBenassal — 40.55°N, 0.70°WFontaine Salée — 42.85°N, 2.30°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°EAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°W

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The named rock units Polyphylloseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polyphylloseris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Polyphylloseris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

423 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Polyphylloseris, 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

28 references

Each of the 53 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 Polyphylloseris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Polyphylloseris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itComoseridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1857