Protochonetes ludloviensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtochonetesPBDB
- 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 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
54 occurrences of Protochonetes ludloviensis 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
54 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
11 formations
- Overton Formation28
- Leintwardine Formation3
- Upper Bringewood Formation3
- Lower Leintwardine Formation2
- Whitcliffe Beds Formation1
- Drom Point Formation1
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The named rock units Protochonetes ludloviensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protochonetes ludloviensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Protochonetes ludloviensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
246 taxa- Salopina lunata40 sites
- Fuchsella amygdalina29 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula25 sites
- Rugadiscina rugata23 sites
- Craniops22 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchia nucula22 sites
- Pteronitella22 sites
- Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis20 sites
- Serpulites20 sites
- Leioclema19 sites
- Isorthis18 sites
- Michelinoceras18 sites
- Ceramopora17 sites
- Loxonema obsoleta17 sites
- Cytherellina16 sites
- Dayia navicula16 sites
- Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni15 sites
- Hyolithes14 sites
- Nuculites14 sites
- Pseudolingula lewisii14 sites
- Calcaribeyrichia12 sites
- Hebellum12 sites
- Kionoceras12 sites
- Orthoceras12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Protochonetes ludloviensis, 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
12 references- Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England28
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia4
- Fossil communities of the late Ludlow and early Pridoli in Wales and the Welsh Borderland3
- Calef and Hancock's Ludlow communities in Wales and the Welsh Borderland3
- Carbonate shelf environments and faunal communities in the Upper Bringewood Beds of the British Silurian3
- Silurian communities of the Oslo Region, Norway2
- Faunal associations of the Lower Leintwardine Formation of the Anglo-Welsh Basin2
- Atkins' Lower Bringewood associations of Wales and the Welsh Borderland2
- Benthic community organization in the Ludlow Series of the Welsh Borderland2
- Silurian marine community west of Dingle, Ireland2
- The Silurian rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire2
- Polish Ludlow-Lower Devonian communities1
Each of the 54 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
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood 1962