Polycystocoelia asiatica
No picture of Polycystocoelia asiatica 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 asiatica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolycystocoeliaPBDB
- 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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Polycystocoelia asiatica 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Polycystocoelia asiatica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polycystocoelia asiatica and its relatives
PermianWhere Polycystocoelia asiatica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Cystauletes typica2 sites
- Cystauletes orientalis1 site
- Endostoma1 site
- Intrasporeocoelia hubeiensis1 site
- Intratubospongia osiensis1 site
- Polycystocoelia huajiaopingensis1 site
- Preverticillites columnella1 site
- Radiotrabeculopora maokoui1 site
- Subascosymplegma paracatenulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Polycystocoelia asiatica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Sphinctozoan sponges from the Permian reefs of South China1
- Sphinctozoans from Late Permian Reefs of Lichuan, West Hubei, China1
Each of the 2 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 Polycystocoelia asiatica 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 asiatica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polycystocoelia asiatica 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 itPolycystocoelia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zhang and Fan 1985)