Polytryphocycloides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclocystoididaePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cyclocystoidea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyclocystoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cyclocystoidea

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 8 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 6 of 8 occurrencesSilurian458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–429 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449.6 Mya432.9 Mya457.9 Mya426.1 Mya

8 occurrences of Polytryphocycloides on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

8 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

Dunleith — 37.07°N, 89.57°WBlanding — 42.40°N, 91.30°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WSalamonie Dolomite — 39.38°N, 85.57°W

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The named rock units Polytryphocycloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polytryphocycloides and its relatives

Silurian

Where Polytryphocycloides and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Polytryphocycloides, 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

3 references

Each of the 8 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 Polytryphocycloides 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 Polytryphocycloides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polytryphocycloides 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 itCyclocystoididae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith and Paul 1982