Polacanthus foxii

No picture of Polacanthus foxii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Polacanthus foxii itself, so it was not used. 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 Polacanthus foxii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolacanthusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.4 Mya106.3 Mya139.9 Mya99.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Polacanthus foxii 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

5 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

3 formations

Wessex — 50.62°N, 1.38°WWessex — 50.67°N, 1.13°WVectis — 50.66°N, 1.47°WFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.34°W

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The named rock units Polacanthus foxii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polacanthus foxii and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Polacanthus foxii and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Polacanthus foxii, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Polacanthus foxii · NHMUK:PAL:PV R 175

No picture of Polacanthus foxii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Polacanthus foxii itself, so it was not used.

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 Polacanthus foxii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPolacanthus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grabau 1921