Proplina cornutaformis

No picture of Proplina cornutaformis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Proplina cornutaformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 493.5 Mya to 483.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 471.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 5 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 3 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician498–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences493.5 Mya483.4 Mya497.5 Mya470.8 Mya

5 occurrences of Proplina cornutaformis 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

5 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

4 formations

Gasconade — 38.10°N, 91.13°WGasconade — 38.22°N, 91.07°WHoyt Limestone — 43.08°N, 73.86°WFranconia — 45.40°N, 92.66°WCotter — 37.30°N, 92.95°W

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

Proplina cornutaformis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Proplina cornutaformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Proplina cornutaformis, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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. 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 content0

No picture of Proplina cornutaformis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Proplina cornutaformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Walcott 1879)