Polarisella sp.

No picture of Polarisella sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Polarisella sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 18 of 19 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 19 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 3 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 7 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences259.857 Mya227.3 Mya266 Mya200 Mya

19 occurrences of Polarisella sp. 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

19 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.

Polarisella sp. and its relatives

Permian

Where Polarisella sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Polarisella sp., 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 19 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 content0

No picture of Polarisella sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Polarisella sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Polarisella sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.