Polycostatus

Polycostatus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtopanderodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 490.2 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 10 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 8 of 10 occurrencesOrdovician491–490 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486.85 Mya461.1 Mya490.8 Mya457.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Polycostatus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

10 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

5 formations

Stonehenge — 38.86°N, 78.50°WSurvey Peak — 52.23°N, 117.22°WKechika — 57.87°N, 124.08°WDumugol — 37.19°N, 128.74°ELower Setul Limestone — 6.42°N, 99.87°E

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

Polycostatus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Polycostatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Polycostatus, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 content1

Picture of Polycostatus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Polycostatus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itProtopanderodontidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ji and Barnes 1994