Polydeltoideus enodatus
No picture of Polydeltoideus enodatus 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 Polydeltoideus enodatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolydeltoideusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 425 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Polydeltoideus enodatus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Polydeltoideus enodatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polydeltoideus enodatus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Polydeltoideus enodatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Abyssocrinus1 site
- Allocrinus1 site
- Ambocoeliidae1 site
- Amphipsalidocrinus1 site
- Amphistrophia (Amphistrophiella) prolongata1 site
- Ananaspis1 site
- Anastrophia1 site
- Asaphocrinus1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Astraeospongium1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Bactrocrinites1 site
- Bellerophontoidea1 site
- Bigalea1 site
- Botryocrinus1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calceocrinidae1 site
- Calceocrinus1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Caryocrinites1 site
- Cheirurus1 site
- Cirripedia1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Craniidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Polydeltoideus enodatus, 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
2 references- Echinoderm faunas of the Decatur Limestone and Ross Formation (Upper Silurian to Lower Devonian) of west-central Tennessee2
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Polydeltoideus enodatus 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 Polydeltoideus enodatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polydeltoideus enodatus 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 itPolydeltoideus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riemann and Fay 1961