Polytaxis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ForaminiferaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 9 occurrencesPermian314–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306 Mya266.9 Mya314 Mya263 Mya

9 occurrences of Polytaxis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

9 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

5 formations

Safetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°EFort Scott — 37.42°N, 94.93°WHare Fiord — 80.74°N, 85.75°WKamiyozawa — 35.76°N, 139.24°ELower Pseudoschwagerina Limestone — 46.59°N, 13.17°E

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The named rock units Polytaxis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polytaxis and its relatives

Permian

Where Polytaxis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Polytaxis, 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

7 references

Each of the 9 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. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Polytaxis 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itForaminifera through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.