Polioptenus elegans

No picture of Polioptenus elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Polioptenus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolioptenusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 4.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 314.6 Mya and 309.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315.1 Mya309.3 Mya

1 occurrence of Polioptenus elegans 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

Lower Saarbrucker layer — 49.29°N, 7.03°E

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

Polioptenus elegans and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Polioptenus elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Polioptenus elegans, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Polioptenus elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Polioptenus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldenberg 1877)