Prochlidonophora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChlidonophorinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous145–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–120 Mya — about 6 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya83.6 Mya145 Mya71 Mya

12 occurrences of Prochlidonophora on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

3 formations

Fossil Bluff — 71.58°S, 68.54°WFossil Bluff — 71.69°S, 68.51°WFossil Bluff — 71.89°S, 68.43°WFossil Bluff — 71.54°S, 68.71°WFossil Bluff — 72.00°S, 69.00°WGamta — 2.13°S, 130.29°EGamta — 2.00°S, 130.31°EGamta — 2.15°S, 130.47°EWaaf — 2.11°S, 130.41°E

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The named rock units Prochlidonophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Prochlidonophora and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Prochlidonophora and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Prochlidonophora, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Prochlidonophora 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 Prochlidonophora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Prochlidonophora 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomson and Owen 1979