Polymorphites

Polymorphites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolymorphitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 48 of 48 occurrencesEarly Jurassic200–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 3 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 4 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 4 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 4 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 4 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 4 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 3 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200 Mya183.7 Mya

48 occurrences of Polymorphites on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

48 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

9 formations

Belemnite Marls — 50.73°N, 2.87°WGhost Creek — 53.41°N, 132.30°WGhost Creek — 53.20°N, 132.05°WSierra de Santa Rosa — 29.70°N, 112.27°WFannin — 53.03°N, 131.88°WFannin — 53.41°N, 132.30°WFannin — 53.20°N, 132.05°WOust — 36.37°N, 10.09°EOust — 36.35°N, 10.07°EIsztimér Limestone — 47.19°N, 17.87°ESpatsizi — 57.48°N, 128.90°WInklin — 59.16°N, 133.81°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Polymorphites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polymorphites and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Polymorphites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

183 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Polymorphites, 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

18 references

Each of the 48 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Polymorphites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Steinkern
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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What may have been alongside itPolymorphitinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haug 1887