Polyphysaceae

The Polyphysaceae is a taxonomic family of green algae, one of three families in the order Dasycladales. For single-celled organisms, they are huge, growing to nearly a foot long in some cases.

Polyphysaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasycladalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 262 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Permian — about 8 of 205 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 205 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 28 of 205 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 20 of 205 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 205 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 205 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 34 of 205 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 50 of 205 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 205 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 32 of 205 occurrencesEocene — about 22 of 205 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 205 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 205 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 205 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 205 occurrences289–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–270 Mya — about 3 occurrences270–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence251–241 Mya — about 13 occurrences241–231 Mya — about 24 occurrences231–222 Mya — about 3 occurrences222–212 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences212–203 Mya — about 7 occurrences203–193 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences164–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–145 Mya — about 31 occurrences145–136 Mya — about 20 occurrences136–126 Mya — about 17 occurrences126–117 Mya — about 16 occurrences107–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–88 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences88–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–59 Mya — about 19 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 24 occurrences50–40 Mya — about 11 occurrences21–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–1.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences274.4 Mya11.63 Mya289 Mya2 Mya

205 occurrences of Polyphysaceae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

205 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

44 formations

Polat — 37.98°N, 31.45°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.54°N, 45.30°ESylhet Limestone — 22.60°N, 88.04°ESylhet Limestone — 23.10°N, 88.55°ESylhet Limestone — 22.21°N, 88.17°ESylhet Limestone — 22.90°N, 88.50°EKhurmala — 35.11°N, 45.82°ELärchberg — 47.62°N, 12.67°EWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°ESafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°EZongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.66°EJafnayn — 22.68°N, 59.37°EZhepure Shan — 28.65°N, 87.16°EMt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°ERecoaro - Upper Serla — 46.75°N, 11.97°ECalcari — 39.80°N, 16.12°EStramberk — 49.58°N, 18.12°E"Abu Tartur" — 25.47°N, 30.05°EPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EShotori Dolomite — 32.50°N, 57.33°EWetterstein — 47.42°N, 11.00°EWetterstein — 47.70°N, 12.02°ESchlern Dolomite — 46.57°N, 13.30°EMarmolata — 46.45°N, 11.87°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.77°ENiniyur — 10.80°N, 78.70°ESouth Galala — 29.24°N, 32.30°EKambuhel Limestone — 47.54°N, 13.50°EAvella — 42.17°N, 14.17°E

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The named rock units Polyphysaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polyphysaceae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Polyphysaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 110 sites for Polyphysaceae, 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

83 references

Each of the 205 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. 71 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 content1

Picture of Polyphysaceae

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. B.navez assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Polyphysaceae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kützing 1843