Protobuthus elegans
No picture of Protobuthus 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 Protobuthus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtobuthusPBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 245.19 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Protobuthus elegans on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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- Middle Triassic100%
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 Protobuthus elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protobuthus elegans and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Protobuthus elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Archilimonia vogesiana1 site
- Baharellinus umbrosus1 site
- Chauliodites anisicus1 site
- Clavapartus latus1 site
- Diptera1 site
- Dorniella apectinata1 site
- Dorniella elcanoides1 site
- Gallioscorpio voltzi1 site
- Gallodunstania grauvogeli1 site
- Minorella virgata1 site
- Nematocera1 site
- Parabintoniella papierae1 site
- Reisia guillaumei1 site
- Rosamygale grauvogeli1 site
- Triassoephemera punctata1 site
- Triassomanthus parvulus1 site
- Triassonurus doliiformis1 site
- Vogesonympha ludovici1 site
- Voltziaephemera fossoria1 site
- Voltziahagla pseudoveinosa1 site
- Voltzialestes triasicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Protobuthus elegans, 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
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
Media content0
No picture of Protobuthus 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 Protobuthus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protobuthus elegans was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProtobuthus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lourenço and Gall 2004