Polzia eldoctorensis
No picture of Polzia eldoctorensis 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 Polzia eldoctorensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolziaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Thylacocephala
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Thylacocephala
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Thylacocephala
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Thylacocephala
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Polzia eldoctorensis 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Polzia eldoctorensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polzia eldoctorensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Polzia eldoctorensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Acanthomorphata1 site
- Aeger hidalguensis1 site
- Aspidorhynchidae1 site
- Clupeomorpha1 site
- Dalgoichthys tropicalis1 site
- Dercetidae1 site
- Enchodus zipapanensis1 site
- Euteleostei1 site
- Handuichthys interopercularis1 site
- Heckelichthys preopercularis1 site
- Ichthyotringidae1 site
- Nunaneichthys mexicanus1 site
- Pachyrhizodontidae1 site
- Palinurus1 site
- Pseudomonocentris microspinosus1 site
- Ptychodus1 site
- Rajiformes1 site
- Semionotiformes1 site
- Squalicorax1 site
- Victoriacaris muhiensis1 site
- Xeneichthys yanesi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Polzia eldoctorensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach 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 Polzia eldoctorensis 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 Polzia eldoctorensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polzia eldoctorensis 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 itPolzia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hegna et al. 2014