Polyphymaspongia explanata

No picture of Polyphymaspongia explanata 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 Polyphymaspongia explanata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolyphymaspongiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At most 4.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 19 of 19 occurrencesPermian264–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264.8 Mya259.4 Mya

19 occurrences of Polyphymaspongia explanata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

19 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

2 formations

Capitan Limestone — 32.18°N, 104.35°WCapitan Limestone — 32.29°N, 104.34°WCapitan — 32.19°N, 104.36°WCapitan — 32.29°N, 104.35°WCapitan — 32.15°N, 104.50°W

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

Polyphymaspongia explanata and its relatives

Permian

Where Polyphymaspongia explanata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Polyphymaspongia explanata, 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

3 references

Each of the 19 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

Media content0

No picture of Polyphymaspongia explanata 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 Polyphymaspongia explanata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polyphymaspongia explanata 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 itPolyphymaspongia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (King 1943)