Primorella polita

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrimorellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesPermian291–290 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences283.3 Mya264.28 Mya290.7 Mya259.3 Mya

12 occurrences of Primorella polita 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

12 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

Chandalaz — 43.20°N, 131.50°EChandalaz — 43.30°N, 132.29°EChandalaz — 43.72°N, 132.66°EChandalaz — 44.75°N, 131.20°EChandalaz — 44.85°N, 131.12°EKapp Starostin — 77.71°N, 14.69°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°EOsakhta — 48.09°N, 132.50°EBarabash — 43.18°N, 131.55°EUgodinzinskaya — 49.92°N, 135.01°E

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The named rock units Primorella polita 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.

Primorella polita and its relatives

Permian

Where Primorella polita and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Primorella polita, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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 Primorella polita 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 Primorella polita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Primorella polita 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romantchuk and Kiseleva 1968