Polybessurus bipartitus

No picture of Polybessurus bipartitus 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 Polybessurus bipartitus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolybessurusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 200 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1200 Mya to 1000 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1400 Mya to 720 Mya.

1414–1390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1390–1366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1366–1343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1343–1319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1319–1296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1296–1272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1272–1249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1249–1225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1225–1201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1201–1178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1178–1154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1154–1131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1131–1107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1107–1084 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1084–1060 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1060–1036 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1036–1013 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1013–989 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences989–966 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences966–942 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences942–919 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences919–895 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences895–871 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences871–848 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences848–824 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences824–801 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences801–777 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences777–754 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences754–730 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences730–706 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1200 Mya1000 Mya1414 Mya706 Mya

5 occurrences of Polybessurus bipartitus on record. 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

2 formations

Victor Bay — 72.33°N, 79.78°WAvzyan — 54.73°N, 58.18°E

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The named rock units Polybessurus bipartitus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Polybessurus bipartitus, 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

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Polybessurus bipartitus 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 Polybessurus bipartitus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polybessurus bipartitus 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 itPolybessurus through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Green et al. 1987