Polygyrina depressa

No picture of Polygyrina depressa 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 Polygyrina depressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolygyrinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At most 3.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 6 occurrencesEarly Triassic254–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254.64 Mya250.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Polygyrina depressa on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

4 formations

Yelang — 26.14°N, 105.28°EFeixianguan — 26.15°N, 105.29°ETalung — 23.70°N, 109.32°ELuolou — 23.70°N, 109.32°E

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The named rock units Polygyrina depressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Polygyrina depressa and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Polygyrina depressa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Polygyrina depressa, 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. 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 Polygyrina depressa 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 Polygyrina depressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polygyrina depressa 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 itPolygyrina through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang 1980