Polythecalis irregularis

No picture of Polythecalis irregularis 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 Polythecalis irregularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolythecalisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At most 8.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPermian283–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283.8 Mya273.9 Mya

2 occurrences of Polythecalis irregularis 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

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

Qixia — 31.63°N, 117.83°EShoushangou — 43.15°N, 126.60°E

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

Polythecalis irregularis and its relatives

Permian

Where Polythecalis irregularis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Polythecalis irregularis, 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 Polythecalis irregularis 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 Polythecalis irregularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polythecalis irregularis 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 itPolythecalis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yu et al. 1981