Polyphylloseris microkothos

No picture of Polyphylloseris microkothos 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 Polyphylloseris microkothos, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolyphylloserisPBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119.57 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

2 occurrences of Polyphylloseris microkothos on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

2 formations

Titanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WSchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°E

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

Polyphylloseris microkothos and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Polyphylloseris microkothos and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Polyphylloseris microkothos, 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

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

No 3D scan of Polyphylloseris microkothos 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 itPolyphylloseris through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baron-Szabo 2008