Polytremacis partschi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolytremacisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Helioporacea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Helioporacea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Helioporacea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helioporacea
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
9 occurrences of Polytremacis partschi on record, most of them in the Late 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
9 occurrences- Late Cretaceous67%
- Paleocene28%
- Eocene5%
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
3 formations
- Hochmoos Formation · Gosau Group1
- Praznov Formation1
- Uhrov Formation1
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The named rock units Polytremacis partschi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Polytremacis partschi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Polytremacis partschi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Actinacis martiniana4 sites
- Actinacis3 sites
- Actinacis remesi3 sites
- Bullopora multicamerata3 sites
- Elianella elegans3 sites
- Epiphaxum3 sites
- Epiphaxum murchisoni3 sites
- Gypsina ogormani3 sites
- Jania nummulitica3 sites
- Miniacina multiformis3 sites
- Nubecularia3 sites
- Planorbulina uva3 sites
- Serpula3 sites
- Agathelia asperella2 sites
- Astreopora2 sites
- Distichoplax biserialis2 sites
- Fischerina2 sites
- Lithophyllum quadrangulum2 sites
- Lithothamnium contraversum2 sites
- Planorbulina mediterranensis2 sites
- Sporolithon lugeonii2 sites
- Sporolithon proprium2 sites
- Stylosmilia2 sites
- Acrosmilia elongata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Polytremacis partschi, 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
5 references- Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaeogene reef-complexes of the Myjava-Hricov-Haligovka Zone (West Carpathians)3
- pers. comm.2
- Some new occurrences of corals in the klippen belt in Slovakia2
- Taxonomie und Ontogenie von Korallen der ostalpinen Oberkreide (Hochmoos- und Grabenbachschichten, Gosau Gruppe, Santon)1
- Tethyan Cretaceous corals in Yugoslavia1
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 content1
Picture of Polytremacis partschi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Polytremacis partschi 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 itPolytremacis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1854