Polytoechia

No picture of Polytoechia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Polytoechia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolytoechiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Billingsellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Billingsellida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Billingsellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 457.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 29 occurrencesOrdovician — about 29 of 29 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477.1 Mya458.2 Mya487.4 Mya456.6 Mya

29 occurrences of Polytoechia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

29 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

15 formations

Dawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 108.00°EDawan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EDawan — 30.00°N, 116.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EZhitai — 29.00°N, 109.00°ESmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.93°WSmithville — 37.16°N, 89.82°WPowell — 36.33°N, 92.38°WPowell — 36.23°N, 92.68°WSimeh-Kuh — 36.21°N, 54.22°ERockdale Run — 39.63°N, 77.82°WSanqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°EFengxiang — 31.00°N, 111.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EFengfeng — 36.00°N, 113.00°ESaErGanTag — 40.00°N, 78.00°EShin Brook — 46.11°N, 68.61°WCape Weber — 73.51°N, 24.70°WSantao — 41.40°N, 123.52°ELashkarak — 36.36°N, 54.75°E

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The named rock units Polytoechia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polytoechia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Polytoechia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

225 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Polytoechia, 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 29 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 content0

No picture of Polytoechia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Polytoechia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.