Polyporella woodsi

No picture of Polyporella woodsi 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 Polyporella woodsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolyporellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 8.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Permian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesPermian291–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283.3 Mya274.4 Mya290.6 Mya266.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Polyporella woodsi 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

12 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

6 formations

Cattle Creek — 24.85°S, 148.32°EBranxton — 32.65°S, 151.26°EBranxton — 32.90°S, 151.46°EBranxton — 32.72°S, 151.51°ENoonkanbah — 17.92°S, 123.93°ENoonkanbah — 18.70°S, 125.00°EWandrawandian — 35.37°S, 150.49°EBerserker — 23.39°S, 150.60°ESirius — 24.88°S, 148.29°E

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

Polyporella woodsi and its relatives

Permian

Where Polyporella woodsi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Polyporella woodsi, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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 Polyporella woodsi 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 Polyporella woodsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polyporella woodsi 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 itPolyporella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Etheridge 1892)