Proplina

Proplina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProplinidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Tryblidiida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tryblidiida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Tryblidiida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tergomya

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 493.5 Mya to 471.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 20 of 41 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 21 of 41 occurrencesOrdovician498–496 Mya — about 1 occurrence496–495 Mya — about 3 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 3 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 1 occurrence491–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 4 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 4 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–484 Mya — about 2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 3 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 2 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–473 Mya — about 1 occurrence473–472 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences493.5 Mya471.3 Mya497.8 Mya456.5 Mya

41 occurrences of Proplina on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

41 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

20 formations

Gasconade — 38.10°N, 91.13°WGasconade — 37.85°N, 92.21°WGasconade — 38.22°N, 91.07°WFranconia — 45.40°N, 92.66°WFranconia — 43.97°N, 88.96°WPotosi — 37.00°N, 91.00°WPotosi — 38.58°N, 90.68°WPotosi — 37.85°N, 90.62°WEminence — 38.20°N, 91.15°WEminence — 37.97°N, 91.35°WEminence — 37.24°N, 91.29°WMinaret — 79.50°S, 85.00°WMinaret — 79.83°S, 84.50°WMinaret — 79.43°S, 84.78°WPilgrim — 46.01°N, 112.54°WPilgrim — 45.93°N, 111.48°WAntelope Valley — 37.35°N, 115.77°WWan-wan-kou — 38.35°N, 125.43°ERich Fountain — 38.58°N, 92.17°WChatsworth — 22.01°S, 140.30°EOgof Hen — 51.82°N, 4.37°WValmy — 38.87°N, 117.92°WGorman — 30.27°N, 97.74°WRoubidoux — 36.98°N, 91.50°WTheodosia — 36.68°N, 93.87°WHoyt Limestone — 43.08°N, 73.86°WSmithville — 37.29°N, 89.83°WFort Ann — 43.91°N, 73.30°WCotter — 37.30°N, 92.95°WPoulsen Cliff — 80.04°N, 65.63°W

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

Proplina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Proplina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

211 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Proplina, 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

19 references

Each of the 41 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Proplina

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Proplina 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. Kobayashi 1933