Protaraea

Protaraea

via iDigBio · CC BY-NC · via iDigBio. 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
CoccoserididaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 72 of 76 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 76 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 9 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 21 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 21 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 7 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457.3 Mya432.9 Mya472.2 Mya425.8 Mya

76 occurrences of Protaraea 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

76 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

19 formations

Liberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 38.20°N, 85.57°WLiberty — 39.49°N, 84.95°WLiberty — 39.34°N, 84.95°WLiberty — 39.48°N, 84.06°WLiberty — 39.48°N, 84.05°WLiberty — 38.78°N, 85.37°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWhitewater — 39.49°N, 84.95°WWhitewater — 39.79°N, 84.90°WWhitewater — 39.48°N, 84.06°WWhitewater — 39.39°N, 83.93°WWhitewater — 38.93°N, 83.52°WWhitewater — 46.02°N, 83.73°WWhitewater — 39.76°N, 84.19°WValcour — 44.61°N, 73.41°WBardstown — 37.77°N, 85.36°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.06°WGeorgian Bay — 45.75°N, 81.60°WDillsboro — 39.16°N, 84.46°WElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBenjamin Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EBaota — 27.00°N, 107.00°EBulongguoer — 47.00°N, 86.00°ETakche — 32.03°N, 78.00°EManchap — 31.82°N, 78.58°EVasalemma — 59.23°N, 24.28°EHirmuse — 59.27°N, 24.52°ECrown Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WStonington — 45.75°N, 87.02°WTamsalu — 58.99°N, 26.35°EKörgessaare — 59.16°N, 24.65°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Protaraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protaraea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Protaraea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

475 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Protaraea, 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

17 references

Each of the 76 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. 5 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 Protaraea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Protaraea was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCoccoserididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851