Polycolpites speciosus
No picture of Polycolpites speciosus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Polycolpites speciosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolycolpitesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Polycolpites speciosus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Polycolpites speciosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polycolpites speciosus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Polycolpites speciosus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Araliaceoipollenites psilatus1 site
- Cyathidites australis1 site
- Deltoidospora1 site
- Dicotetradites reticulatus1 site
- Diporopollis assamica1 site
- Foraminisporis medius1 site
- Foveosporites pseudoreticulatus1 site
- Foveotriletes pachyexinous1 site
- Liliacidites microreticulatus1 site
- Lycopodiumsporites speciosus1 site
- Lycopodiumsporites umstewensis1 site
- Lygodiumsporites eocenicus1 site
- Monosulcites borassioides1 site
- Monosulcites magnus1 site
- Monosulcites planus1 site
- Nymphaeacidites clarus1 site
- Nymphaeacidites sphericus1 site
- Nyssapollenites incertus1 site
- Polycolpites cooksonii1 site
- Polycolpites vimalii1 site
- Polyporina excellens1 site
- Reticulatisporites incompositus1 site
- Retitrescolpites assamicus1 site
- Retitrescolpites minor1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Polycolpites speciosus, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Polycolpites speciosus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Polycolpites speciosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polycolpites speciosus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itPolycolpites through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dutta and Sah 1970