Protathyris

Protathyris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AthyridinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 111 occurrencesSilurian — about 34 of 111 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 77 of 111 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 7 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 8 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 7 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 7 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 12 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 14 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 14 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 14 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 12 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 6 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 1 occurrence408–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–403 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–399 Mya — about 1 occurrence399–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya410.62 Mya444 Mya392 Mya

111 occurrences of Protathyris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

111 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

38 formations

Miaokao — 25.53°N, 103.68°EMiaokao — 26.00°N, 103.00°EMiaokao — 25.48°N, 103.78°ESiyak — 53.10°N, 57.43°EGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°ENahkaoling — 22.70°N, 109.22°ENahkaoling — 23.00°N, 108.00°EKeyser Limestone — 39.64°N, 77.66°WNagaoling — 22.39°N, 107.55°EKess Kess — 31.37°N, 7.30°WZhangmu — 23.35°N, 109.33°EZhangmu — 22.00°N, 110.00°EDevon Island — 76.28°N, 92.70°WKarheen — 55.80°N, 133.35°WChashmaniat — 39.23°N, 67.40°EWych Beds — 52.05°N, 2.72°WRead Bay — 73.25°N, 93.50°WSutherland River — 70.00°N, 95.00°WPetropavlovsk Suite — 60.15°N, 59.96°EMitkov Beds — 49.02°N, 25.80°EBogdanovka Beds — 49.02°N, 25.80°EChortkov Beds — 49.02°N, 25.80°ELaketown Dolomite — 37.38°N, 115.34°WTonoloway — 38.68°N, 79.48°WPutonggou — 37.00°N, 103.00°ETymochtee — 41.67°N, 84.33°WStuart Bay — 75.75°N, 98.37°WAtafaitafa — 23.77°N, 5.33°E

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The named rock units Protathyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protathyris and its relatives

Devonian

Where Protathyris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

640 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Protathyris, 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

42 references

Each of the 111 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. 30 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 Protathyris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
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 itAthyridinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.