Proboscina major
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProboscinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 129 ka.
3 occurrences of Proboscina major on record. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Proboscina major 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.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Microporella ciliata3 sites
- Acanthastrea2 sites
- Aequipecten2 sites
- Antropora2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
- Argyrotheca2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata2 sites
- Calpensia nobilis2 sites
- Celleporina2 sites
- Cerithiella2 sites
- Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Clanculus (Clanculopsis) cruciatus2 sites
- Clypeaster2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Crassimarginatella bobiesi2 sites
- Creusia2 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata2 sites
- Cypraea2 sites
- Dromia neogenica2 sites
- Escharina vulgaris2 sites
- Gastrana fragilis2 sites
- Haliotis tuberculata2 sites
- Hyotissa hyotis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Proboscina major, 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- Messinian coral reefs of western Orania, Algeria1
- Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]1
- Fossil bryozoa from the Pleistocene of Southern California1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Proboscina major
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Proboscina major 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 itProboscina through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Johnston 1847)