Polygonella incrustata

No picture of Polygonella incrustata 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 Polygonella incrustata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolygonellaPBDB
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 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 56 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143.1 Mya66 Mya164 Mya54 Mya

2 occurrences of Polygonella incrustata 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

2 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

Arachneon — 37.65°N, 23.02°E

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The named rock units Polygonella incrustata 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

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Polygonella incrustata, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

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

Media content0

No picture of Polygonella incrustata 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 Polygonella incrustata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polygonella incrustata 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.

Keep going

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

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