Protelphidium

Protelphidium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NonionidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 8 of 43 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 43 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 43 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–8.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Protelphidium on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

43 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

10 formations

Roca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WRoca — 34.60°S, 69.72°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WVistula — 54.27°N, 19.43°EKadyny — 54.27°N, 19.43°EGniew — 53.84°N, 18.96°EPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WHesquiat — 49.67°N, 126.87°WAllen — 37.50°S, 69.00°WJagüel — 36.83°S, 69.26°WArroyo Barbudo — 40.42°S, 66.09°W

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The named rock units Protelphidium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protelphidium and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Protelphidium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

351 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Protelphidium, 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

16 references

Each of the 43 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. 4 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 Protelphidium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Protelphidium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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What may have been alongside itNonionidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.