Polyentactinia polygonia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolyentactiniaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 6 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358.86 Mya346.7 Mya383 Mya329 Mya

6 occurrences of Polyentactinia polygonia on record. 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

6 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

1 formation

Ohio Shale — 41.28°N, 82.60°WOhio Shale — 41.23°N, 82.62°W

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The named rock units Polyentactinia polygonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Polyentactinia polygonia, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Polyentactinia polygonia 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 itPolyentactinia through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foreman 1963