Protochonetes piltenensis
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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 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 423 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
26 occurrences of Protochonetes piltenensis 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
26 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
12 formations
- Minija Formation3
- Kuressaare Formation3
- Kaugatuma Formation3
- Lapes Formation2
- Nevezis Formation1
- Minija - Jura Formation1
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The named rock units Protochonetes piltenensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protochonetes piltenensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Protochonetes piltenensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula17 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata13 sites
- Isorthis13 sites
- Craniops11 sites
- Homoeospira baylei11 sites
- Atrypa reticularis10 sites
- Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea) prunum10 sites
- Dayia navicula10 sites
- Morinorhynchus orbignyi8 sites
- Delthyris7 sites
- Howellella7 sites
- Shaleria dzwinogrodensis7 sites
- Levenea canaliculata6 sites
- Lingulidae6 sites
- Pseudoprotathyris6 sites
- Shaleria6 sites
- Dalejina hybrida5 sites
- Leptaena5 sites
- Collarothyris canaliculata4 sites
- Atrypoidea3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Dalejina3 sites
- Eomartiniopsis3 sites
- Salopina submedia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Protochonetes piltenensis, 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
7 references- Silurian brachiopods Dictyonellida, Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, Protorthida and Orthida from Estonia8
- Communities and Biozones in the Baltic Silurian5
- Brachiopod communities of the Lithuanian Silurian4
- Selected brachiopod and trilobite communities of the East Baltic Silurian3
- Silurian Brachiopod communities in the section of the Pilviškiai - 141 borehole3
- Experience of Brachiopod community separation from the Silurian of Lithuania2
- Silurian Brachiopod communities in the section of the Vilkaviskis-129 boring1
Each of the 26 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protochonetes piltenensis 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 Protochonetes piltenensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protochonetes piltenensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itProtochonetes through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rybnikova 1967