Protobranchia

Protobranchia is a subclass of bivalve molluscs. It contains the extant orders Nuculanida, Nuculida, and Solemyida.

Protobranchia

Tom Meijer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
BivalviaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 484 million years on record.

The record covers at least 484.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesOrdovician — about 716 of 12000 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 253 of 12000 occurrencesDevonian — about 1574 of 12000 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 552 of 12000 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 743 of 12000 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 79 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 134 of 12000 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 283 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 296 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 653 of 12000 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 234 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 212 of 12000 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1523 of 12000 occurrencesPaleocene — about 701 of 12000 occurrencesEocene — about 1259 of 12000 occurrencesOligocene — about 646 of 12000 occurrencesMiocene — about 1159 of 12000 occurrencesPliocene — about 510 of 12000 occurrencesPleistocene — about 383 of 12000 occurrences497–480 Mya — about 5 occurrences480–463 Mya — about 111 occurrences463–447 Mya — about 534 occurrences447–430 Mya — about 199 occurrences430–414 Mya — about 179 occurrences414–397 Mya — about 195 occurrences397–381 Mya — about 1148 occurrences381–364 Mya — about 130 occurrences364–348 Mya — about 76 occurrences348–331 Mya — about 104 occurrences331–315 Mya — about 129 occurrences315–298 Mya — about 287 occurrences298–281 Mya — about 138 occurrences281–265 Mya — about 265 occurrences265–248 Mya — about 379 occurrences248–232 Mya — about 272 occurrences232–215 Mya — about 69 occurrences215–199 Mya — about 137 occurrences199–182 Mya — about 247 occurrences182–166 Mya — about 179 occurrences166–149 Mya — about 644 occurrences149–132 Mya — about 117 occurrences132–116 Mya — about 51 occurrences116–99 Mya — about 150 occurrences99–83 Mya — about 189 occurrences83–66 Mya — about 1280 occurrences66–50 Mya — about 967 occurrences50–33 Mya — about 1073 occurrences33–17 Mya — about 936 occurrences17–0 Mya — about 1809 occurrences484.3 Mya11.7 ka497 Mya0 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Protobranchia on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 1366 formations

Moscow — 42.70°N, 76.75°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.42°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.82°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.89°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 78.68°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.70°N, 78.95°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.70°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.54°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 76.34°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.80°N, 76.09°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.99°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.60°N, 75.34°WMoscow — 42.76°N, 75.73°WMoscow — 42.66°N, 75.38°WMoscow — 42.69°N, 75.24°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 75.18°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 75.48°WMoscow — 42.58°N, 75.06°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.60°N, 74.95°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.96°WMoscow — 42.52°N, 74.86°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.75°WMoscow — 42.43°N, 74.49°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.60°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.49°WChari — 23.30°N, 69.97°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EGeneseo — 42.33°N, 74.45°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 76.17°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.30°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.42°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.15°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.99°WGeneseo — 42.56°N, 74.85°WGeneseo — 42.48°N, 74.61°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 75.21°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.93°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 74.78°WGeneseo — 42.63°N, 75.46°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.86°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 74.68°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 75.05°WGeneseo — 42.59°N, 75.13°WGeneseo — 45.65°N, 75.39°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WGeneseo — 42.77°N, 75.77°WGeneseo — 42.39°N, 74.43°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 33.51°N, 94.67°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.53°N, 96.27°WCorsicana Marl — 32.22°N, 96.31°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.75°WCorsicana Marl — 31.12°N, 96.82°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.81°N, 97.10°WCorsicana Marl — 30.44°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WCorsicana Marl — 30.19°N, 97.57°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.58°N, 98.04°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.55°N, 87.58°WMoodys Branch — 31.14°N, 87.94°WMoodys Branch — 32.70°N, 83.56°WMoodys Branch — 31.51°N, 87.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.63°N, 91.82°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 33.86°N, 92.29°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 31.47°N, 93.57°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.94°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.90°N, 78.22°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 77.90°WLudlowville — 42.70°N, 76.75°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 76.50°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.35°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.22°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.87°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.27°WLudlowville — 43.00°N, 79.00°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.75°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WLudlowville — 42.79°N, 75.56°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WLudlowville — 42.74°N, 75.54°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 31.17°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.00°N, 97.60°WKincaid — 31.12°N, 96.80°WKincaid — 30.08°N, 97.50°WKincaid — 32.98°N, 95.93°WKincaid — 29.88°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 33.13°N, 96.10°WKincaid — 32.58°N, 96.30°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 99.14°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WSkaneateles — 42.80°N, 76.69°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.47°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.99°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 75.60°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 76.43°WSkaneateles — 42.79°N, 75.57°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.37°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.18°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.88°WSkaneateles — 42.81°N, 76.81°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.52°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.99°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.09°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.00°N, 88.72°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.15°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 32.52°N, 93.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.38°WCook Mountain — 30.36°N, 96.82°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.57°WCook Mountain — 31.27°N, 95.61°WCook Mountain — 31.32°N, 95.46°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 96.14°WCook Mountain — 31.93°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 31.43°N, 93.85°WCook Mountain — 31.53°N, 94.11°WCook Mountain — 27.51°N, 99.51°WCook Mountain — 29.13°N, 98.16°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 31.46°N, 85.64°WCook Mountain — 30.18°N, 96.94°WCook Mountain — 32.52°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCook Mountain — 30.11°N, 97.32°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.87°N, 88.32°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.51°N, 87.89°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.45°N, 85.63°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.82°N, 87.37°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.32°N, 86.00°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.53°N, 87.32°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.61°N, 85.05°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.69°S, 69.84°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WPhosphoria — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPhosphoria — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPhosphoria — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPhosphoria — 44.00°N, 114.00°WPhosphoria — 42.32°N, 111.24°WPhosphoria — 45.03°N, 112.92°WPhosphoria — 42.09°N, 110.93°WPhosphoria — 42.35°N, 110.44°WPhosphoria — 43.35°N, 109.40°WPhosphoria — 42.53°N, 111.24°WPhosphoria — 44.58°N, 112.79°WPhosphoria — 42.12°N, 111.26°WPhosphoria — 42.78°N, 111.31°WPhosphoria — 42.22°N, 111.01°WPhosphoria — 42.28°N, 111.02°WPhosphoria — 45.03°N, 112.68°WPhosphoria — 42.58°N, 111.21°WPhosphoria — 42.69°N, 111.22°WPhosphoria — 42.95°N, 109.00°WPhosphoria — 42.69°N, 111.53°WPhosphoria — 42.63°N, 111.35°WPhosphoria — 42.01°N, 110.59°WPhosphoria — 42.60°N, 111.47°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.65°ECassian — 46.47°N, 12.07°ECassian — 46.55°N, 12.15°ENanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.51°N, 77.02°WNanjemoy — 38.70°N, 76.97°WNanjemoy — 38.76°N, 76.81°WNanjemoy — 38.78°N, 76.87°WNanjemoy — 38.82°N, 76.75°WNanjemoy — 37.65°N, 77.17°WNanjemoy — 37.29°N, 77.24°WNanjemoy — 38.17°N, 77.19°WNanjemoy — 37.77°N, 77.37°WNanjemoy — 37.32°N, 77.28°WKalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°ELoray — 39.01°N, 114.88°WLoray — 39.20°N, 114.98°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.32°WLoray — 39.48°N, 115.12°WLoray — 40.02°N, 115.37°W

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The named rock units Protobranchia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,342 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,684 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,982 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 933 sites for Protobranchia, and this reads 240 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

at least 1,119 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,107 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 Protobranchia

Credit
Tom Meijer
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pelseneer 1889)