Protagelus

Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788, a relative of Protagelus — not Protagelus itself

Not Protagelus. This is Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788, a relative.

-919270953 · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
VeneridaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 27 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

27 occurrences of Protagelus on record, most of them in the Late 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

27 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

Lefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.39°W

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The named rock units Protagelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protagelus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Protagelus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

206 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Protagelus, 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

2 references

Each of the 27 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

Media content1

Picture of Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788

Source
GBIF
Credit
-919270953
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itVenerida through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.