Protobuntonia

Protobuntonia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrachyleberididaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 9 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85.7 Mya59.24 Mya94.7 Mya55.2 Mya

10 occurrences of Protobuntonia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

10 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

1 formation

Calcaires marneux du Santonien — 33.10°N, 5.30°W

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The named rock units Protobuntonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protobuntonia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Protobuntonia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Protobuntonia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 10 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. 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 Protobuntonia

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iDigBio
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Commercial use
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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 itTrachyleberididae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.