Prothyris elegans

No picture of Prothyris elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Prothyris elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProthyrisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 25 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 2 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323.9 Mya298.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Prothyris elegans on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

2 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

2 formations

Douglas — 39.01°N, 95.25°WMcAlester — 35.58°N, 95.32°W

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The named rock units Prothyris elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Prothyris elegans and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Prothyris elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Prothyris 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

Each of the 2 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 Prothyris elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 Prothyris elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Prothyris elegans 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 itProthyris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1871