Protochonetes

Protochonetes is an extinct genus of brachiopods. Its shell was lined with spines.

Protochonetes

the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru · CC BY 2.0 · 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
ProtochonetinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 256 occurrencesSilurian — about 230 of 256 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 26 of 256 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 5 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 5 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 6 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 6 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 6 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 8 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 11 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 15 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 13 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 35 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 48 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 45 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 21 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 5 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 1 occurrence417–415 Mya — about 1 occurrence415–413 Mya — about 1 occurrence413–411 Mya — about 1 occurrence411–410 Mya — about 2 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 3 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 3 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 3 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 3 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 1 occurrence398–396 Mya — about 1 occurrence396–394 Mya — about 1 occurrence394–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432.9 Mya410.62 Mya444 Mya392 Mya

256 occurrences of Protochonetes on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

256 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

93 formations

Overton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WRoss Point — 45.62°N, 61.97°WMuch Wenlock — 52.03°N, 2.40°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.02°N, 2.57°WMuch Wenlock — 51.72°N, 2.90°WMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WMinija — 55.25°N, 22.29°EMinija — 55.08°N, 25.42°EUkalunda Beds — 20.85°S, 147.17°ERoss Brook — 45.62°N, 61.97°WTaemas — 35.00°S, 149.00°ETaemas — 34.95°S, 148.82°ETaemas — 34.94°S, 148.82°EPaadla — 58.34°N, 22.58°EPaadla — 58.29°N, 22.30°EPaadla — 58.00°N, 22.03°EPaadla — 58.12°N, 22.19°ELeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WLeintwardine — 52.00°N, 2.00°WLeintwardine — 51.88°N, 2.23°WYukiang — 22.88°N, 108.87°EYukiang — 22.70°N, 109.22°EYukiang — 22.40°N, 107.50°ERiga — 55.08°N, 25.42°ERiga — 54.65°N, 23.03°ESiesartis — 56.30°N, 23.80°ESiesartis — 55.40°N, 22.91°ESiesartis — 55.24°N, 23.51°EElton Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WElton Beds — 52.17°N, 3.42°WLower Leintwardine — 52.00°N, 2.00°WLower Leintwardine — 52.00°N, 3.00°WUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WLipeon — 24.00°S, 65.00°WYarralumla — 35.28°S, 149.13°EGeluva — 55.08°N, 25.42°EGeluva — 54.65°N, 23.03°EDubysa — 55.08°N, 25.42°EDubysa — 56.30°N, 23.80°EKuressaare — 58.30°N, 22.54°EKuressaare — 58.23°N, 22.51°EKaugatuma — 58.00°N, 22.03°EKaugatuma — 58.12°N, 22.19°ELapes — 54.65°N, 23.03°ELapes — 55.22°N, 23.87°ELapes — 55.27°N, 24.81°EBringewood Beds — 51.90°N, 2.08°WBringewood Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WNevezis — 55.55°N, 24.10°ENevezis — 54.83°N, 23.33°E

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The named rock units Protochonetes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 69 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protochonetes and its relatives

Silurian

Where Protochonetes and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 245 sites for Protochonetes, 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

61 references

Each of the 256 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. 49 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 Protochonetes

Credit
the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru
Licence
CC BY 2.0
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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What may have been alongside itProtochonetinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood 1962