Polygonella

No picture of Polygonella was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Polygonella itself, so it was not used. 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 Polygonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CodiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bryopsidales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryopsidales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Bryopsidales
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta

Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143.1 Mya56 Mya164 Mya31 Mya

4 occurrences of Polygonella 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

4 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

2 formations

Zongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EArachneon — 37.65°N, 23.02°E

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The named rock units Polygonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Polygonella, 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 4 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

Media content0

No picture of Polygonella was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Polygonella itself, so it was not used.

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 Polygonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polygonella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCodiaceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Elliott 1957