Polycystocoelia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SebargasiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Permian — about 21 of 26 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 26 occurrencesLate Triassic276–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–261 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–254 Mya — about 2 occurrences254–252 Mya — about 13 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences219–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266.9 Mya227.3 Mya276 Mya204 Mya

26 occurrences of Polycystocoelia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

26 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

8 formations

Changxing — 29.42°N, 110.88°EChangxing — 24.90°N, 105.15°EChangxing — 30.48°N, 109.05°EChangxing — 30.05°N, 108.93°EChangxing — 30.38°N, 106.85°EChangxing — 25.83°N, 106.08°EWujiaping — 24.90°N, 105.15°ELyudyanza — 42.79°N, 132.86°EAksala — 61.07°N, 134.88°WMaokou — 24.90°N, 105.15°EChaiburi — 7.12°N, 100.17°ELuning — 38.42°N, 118.17°WTalung — 23.70°N, 109.32°E

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The named rock units Polycystocoelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polycystocoelia and its relatives

Permian

Where Polycystocoelia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Polycystocoelia, 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

13 references

Each of the 26 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Polycystocoelia 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 Polycystocoelia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polycystocoelia 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.

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What may have been alongside itSebargasiidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang 1983