Polysentor gorbairdi
No picture of Polysentor gorbairdi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Polysentor gorbairdi itself, so it was not used. 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 Polysentor gorbairdi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolysentorPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 315.2 Mya and 307 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Polysentor gorbairdi on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
- Carbondale Formation · Francis Creek Shale Group2
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The named rock units Polysentor gorbairdi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polysentor gorbairdi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Polysentor gorbairdi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Apionicon apioides1 site
- Bandringa rayi1 site
- Cryptocaris hootchi1 site
- Cyclus obesus1 site
- Dabasacanthus inskasi1 site
- Elonichthys peltigerus1 site
- Elonichthys perpennatus1 site
- Elonichthys remotus1 site
- Elonichthys wolffi1 site
- Eucryptocaris asherorum1 site
- Illilepas damrowi1 site
- Jimpohlia erinacea1 site
- Mayomyzon pieckoensis1 site
- Schramine max1 site
- Similihariotta dabasinskasi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Polysentor gorbairdi, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Polysentor gorbairdi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Polysentor gorbairdi itself, so it was not used.
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 Polysentor gorbairdi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polysentor gorbairdi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPolysentor through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zangerl 1979