Polycope pumicosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolycopePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Myodocopida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Polycope
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Polycope
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 184.2 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly Jurassic248–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245.19 Mya192.9 Mya248 Mya183 Mya

4 occurrences of Polycope pumicosa on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

4 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

4 formations

Lemede — 40.03°N, 8.47°WUzum Bair — 45.07°N, 28.78°EMarelb — 45.07°N, 28.78°EHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°E

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

Polycope pumicosa and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Polycope pumicosa and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

97 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Polycope pumicosa, 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 4 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

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No picture of Polycope pumicosa 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 Polycope pumicosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polycope pumicosa 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 itPolycope through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Apostolescu 1959