Polymerolepis
No picture of Polymerolepis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Polymerolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolymerolepididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Polymerolepis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
- Windmill Limestone Formation1
- Ivanie Formation · Tyver Group1
- Chortkiv Formation1
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The named rock units Polymerolepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polymerolepis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Polymerolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Apalolepis obruchevi2 sites
- Larnovaspis kneri2 sites
- Nikolivia elongata2 sites
- Nikolivia oervigi2 sites
- Turinia pagei2 sites
- Turinia polita2 sites
- Tyriolepis2 sites
- Acanthodian indet.1 site
- Apalolepis brotzeni1 site
- Buchanosteid indet.1 site
- Canonia1 site
- Corvaspis kingi1 site
- Gampsolepis insueta1 site
- Heterostracan indet.1 site
- Irregulareaspis stensio1 site
- Larnovaspis brotzeni1 site
- Larnovaspis major1 site
- Nikolivia1 site
- Nikolivia balabayi1 site
- Nostolepis1 site
- Parameteoraspis dobrovlensis1 site
- Placodermi indet.1 site
- Podolaspis zychi1 site
- Poraspis simplex1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Polymerolepis, 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- The Early Devonian armoured agnathans of Podolia, Ukraine2
- Early Devonian vertebrate microfossils from the Simpson Park Range, Eureka County, Nevada1
Each of the 3 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 Polymerolepis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Polymerolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polymerolepis 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 itPolymerolepididae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Karatajute-Talimaa 1968