Productus productus

A picture published with the record for Productus productus. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProductusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 315.2 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 15 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous340–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 2 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 2 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335.9 Mya323.4 Mya340.4 Mya314.7 Mya

15 occurrences of Productus productus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

15 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

12 formations

Waterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WKarawuyi — 38.27°N, 75.95°EGayle Limestone Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone III — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone III Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IVa Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IVc Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMiddle Limestone V — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMiddle Limestone V Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WEyam Limestone — 53.18°N, 1.77°WMonsal Dale Limestone — 53.19°N, 1.75°WBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°W

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The named rock units Productus productus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Productus productus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Productus productus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

354 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Productus productus, 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

7 references

Each of the 15 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Productus productus

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Scarites Scarites productus · ETHZ:ENT:0577130

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. (Martin 1809)