Polytylites

Searched as Polytylites subrectus n. sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Polytylites as the accepted name.

Polytylites is an extinct genus of ostracod belonging to the order Palaeocopida and family Amphissitidae. Specimens have been found in beds of Carboniferous to Permian age in North America and Asia.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphissitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At most 4.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 318.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323.9 Mya318.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Polytylites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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.

Found in

1 formation

Barnett — 31.04°N, 98.25°W

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

Polytylites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Polytylites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

387 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Polytylites, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Polytylites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAmphissitidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.