Polyptychites villersensis

No picture of Polyptychites villersensis 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 Polyptychites villersensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolyptychitesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 125.77 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous133–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133.1 Mya125.3 Mya

1 occurrence of Polyptychites villersensis 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

1 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.

Polyptychites villersensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Polyptychites villersensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Polyptychites villersensis, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Polyptychites villersensis 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 Polyptychites villersensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polyptychites villersensis 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 itPolyptychites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baumberger 1908