Polyfistula regularis
No picture of Polyfistula regularis 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 Polyfistula regularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolyfistulaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Polyfistula regularis 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
8 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Polyfistula regularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polyfistula regularis and its relatives
PermianWhere Polyfistula regularis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Areolicaudatus semiglobosa8 sites
- Cauletella8 sites
- Foremanhelena circula8 sites
- Ishigaum longispina8 sites
- Ishigaum trifustis8 sites
- Triplanospongos musashiensis8 sites
- Cauletella paradoxa7 sites
- Foremanhelena triangula7 sites
- Ishigaum obesum7 sites
- Ishigaum tristylum7 sites
- Latentifistula crux7 sites
- Nazarovella gracilis7 sites
- Ormistonella7 sites
- Ormistonella adhaerens7 sites
- Ormistonella cylindrata7 sites
- Cauletella manica6 sites
- Foremanhelena robusta6 sites
- Grandetortura nipponica6 sites
- Ishigaum fusinum6 sites
- Nazarovella scalae6 sites
- Octatormentum floriferum6 sites
- Ormistonella robusta6 sites
- Quadricaulis femoris6 sites
- Tetragregnon longispinatum6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Polyfistula regularis, 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- Radiolarian evolution during the latest Permian in south China4
- Taxonomy of order Latentifistularia (Radiolaria) from the latest Permian in southern Guangxi, China4
Each of the 8 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 Polyfistula regularis 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 Polyfistula regularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polyfistula regularis 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 itPolyfistula through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feng et al. 2006