Poliella germana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PoliellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Poliella germana on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
17 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Poliella germana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Poliella germana and its relatives
CambrianWhere Poliella germana and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Poliella leipalox6 sites
- Pagetia clytia5 sites
- Pagetia resseri5 sites
- Poliella denticulata5 sites
- Palmerara granosa4 sites
- Ptarmiganoides4 sites
- Ptarmiganoides araneicauda4 sites
- Albertella eiloitys3 sites
- Albertella judithi3 sites
- Alokistocare alta3 sites
- Kootenia3 sites
- Macannaia maladensis3 sites
- Oryctocephalites typicalis3 sites
- Albertella lata2 sites
- Kootenia aculacauda2 sites
- Nyella clinolimbata2 sites
- Ogygopsis2 sites
- Olenoides steptoensis2 sites
- Oryctocephalus maladensis2 sites
- Acrothele1 site
- Acrothele artemis1 site
- Acrothyra minor1 site
- Acrotreta1 site
- Albertelloides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Poliella germana, 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
4 references- Lower and early Middle Cambrian trilobites from the Pioche Shale, East-Central Nevada, U.S.A.6
- The Ptarmigania strata of the northwestern Wasatch Mountains6
- Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin3
- Early Middle Cambrian Albertella biozone trilobites of the Pioche Shale, southeastern Nevada2
Each of the 17 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 Poliella germana 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 Poliella germana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Poliella germana 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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What may have been alongside itPoliella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Resser 1939)