Prothyris elongatus
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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 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 293.52 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Prothyris elongatus 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
1 occurrences- Carboniferous47%
- Permian53%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Prothyris elongatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prothyris elongatus and its relatives
PermianWhere Prothyris elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Acharax holmwoodensis1 site
- Astartella1 site
- Astartella omolonica1 site
- Astartella permocarbonica1 site
- Cosmomya1 site
- Grammysiopsis omolonicus1 site
- Heteroconchia1 site
- Kolymopecten mutabilis1 site
- Leptochondria simensis1 site
- Modiolus1 site
- Modiolus koneckii1 site
- Myalina permiana1 site
- Myofossa subarbitrata1 site
- Neptunopecten keyserlingiformis1 site
- Palaeoneilo parenica1 site
- Phestia jamesi1 site
- Phestia undosa1 site
- Pleurophorella1 site
- Pseudomonotis kumpani1 site
- Pyramus1 site
- Schizodus antiquus1 site
- Schizodus tschernjaki1 site
- Streblopteria1 site
- Streblopteria eichwaldi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Prothyris elongatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Prothyris elongatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prothyris elongatus, 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 itProthyris through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Biakov 2009