Protanidanthus elegans
No picture of Protanidanthus elegans was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Protanidanthus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtanidanthusPBDB
- 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 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
5 occurrences of Protanidanthus elegans on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Protanidanthus elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protanidanthus elegans and its relatives
PermianWhere Protanidanthus elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Larispirifer jigulensis3 sites
- Martinia corculum3 sites
- Alexenia gratiodentalis2 sites
- Alexenia mucronata2 sites
- Cancrinella cancriniformis2 sites
- Chonetinella baomoshanensis2 sites
- Dielasma indentum2 sites
- Enteletina mirabilis2 sites
- Enteletina undata2 sites
- Lissochonetes latus2 sites
- Martinia latisulcata2 sites
- Martinia manchuriensis2 sites
- Meekella striatocostata2 sites
- Phricodothyris asiatica2 sites
- Plicatifera lipoensis2 sites
- Bruntonella latisinuata1 site
- Buxtonia1 site
- Cancrinella koninckiana1 site
- Cancrinella rugatostriata1 site
- Chaoiella gruenewaldti1 site
- Composita huagongensis1 site
- Costachonetes pygmaea1 site
- Crurithyris planoconvexa1 site
- Eliva mignon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Protanidanthus elegans, 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- Uppermost Carboniferous brachiopods from western Guizhou4
- Late Paleozoic and Triassic brachiopods from the east of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protanidanthus elegans was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Protanidanthus elegans, 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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What may have been alongside itProtanidanthus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liao 1979