Polyporites

No picture of Polyporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Polyporites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 182 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–894 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205.7 Mya23.04 Mya232 Mya894 ka

2 occurrences of Polyporites on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

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

Bull Canyon — 35.37°N, 103.38°WWarkalli — 8.74°N, 76.70°E

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

Polyporites and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Polyporites, 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

2 references

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Polyporites was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Polyporites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Polyporites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wieland