Proconulus arabiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProconulusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Proconulus arabiensis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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 occurrencesThese 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
- Madbi Formation2
- Naifa Formation1
- Gahodleh Shale Formation1
- Bihen Limestone Formation1
- Sa Wer Formation1
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The named rock units Proconulus arabiensis 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.
Proconulus arabiensis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Proconulus arabiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) egertonianus5 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana4 sites
- Ptyctothyris daghaniensis4 sites
- Neocrassina3 sites
- Palaeonucula3 sites
- Pleurotomaria3 sites
- Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana3 sites
- Somalirhynchia africana3 sites
- Actinostreon2 sites
- Bihenithyris weiri2 sites
- Camptonectes2 sites
- Cererithyris2 sites
- Laevaptychus2 sites
- Loboidothyris aualites2 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus2 sites
- Nucula (Palaeonucula) cuneiformis2 sites
- Protocardia somaliensis2 sites
- Somalirhynchia bihendulensis2 sites
- Somalirhynchia somalica2 sites
- Somalithyris macfadyeni2 sites
- Trigonia2 sites
- Xestosina subsella2 sites
- Acanthothiris1 site
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Proconulus arabiensis, 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- The Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen3
- Molluschi del Giuralias della Somalia, Gasteropodi e Lamellibranchi [Jurassic molluscs from Somalia, gastropods and bivalves]2
- Jurassic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia2
- Jurassic sequences from the Somali coast of the Gulf of Aden1
- Contribution a l'etude du Jurassique superieur (facies Corallien) en Ethiopie et en Arabie meridionale [Studies about the Upper Jurassic (Corallian facies) in Ethiopia and southern Arabia]1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Proconulus arabiensis 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 Proconulus arabiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proconulus arabiensis 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 itProconulus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Newton 1908)