Protoconus crestatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtoconusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 530.7 Mya to 525.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 521 Mya.
6 occurrences of Protoconus crestatus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
6 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
5 formations
- Zhujiaqing Formation · Meishucunian Group2
- Huangshandong Formation1
- Dengying Formation1
- Medvezhya Formation1
- Kugda-Yuryakh Formation1
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The named rock units Protoconus crestatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protoconus crestatus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Protoconus crestatus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Oelandiella korobkovi5 sites
- Chancelloria symmetrica3 sites
- Halkieria3 sites
- Siphogonuchites triangularis3 sites
- Anabarella plana2 sites
- Anabarites trisulcatus2 sites
- Annelitellus yangtzensis2 sites
- Archaeooides granulatus2 sites
- Bemella jacutica2 sites
- Cambrotubulus decurvatus2 sites
- Conotheca subcurvata2 sites
- Cupittheca mira2 sites
- Halkieria sthenobasis2 sites
- Helcionella radiata2 sites
- Lopochites latazonalis2 sites
- Obtusoconus honorabilis2 sites
- Ocruranus finial2 sites
- Protoconus elegans2 sites
- Actinoconus pyriformis1 site
- Aegides seperbes1 site
- Aegitellus1 site
- Aetholicopalla adnata1 site
- Aldanella attleborensis1 site
- Aldanella crassa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Protoconus crestatus, 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
4 references- Terreneuvian stratigraphy and faunas from the Anabar Uplift, Siberia2
- Terreneuvian small shelly faunas of East Yunnan (South China) and their biostratigraphic implication2
- Zooproblematica and mollusca from the Lower Cambrian Meishucun section (Yunnan, China) and taxonomy and systematics of the Cambrian small shelly fossils of China1
- Earliest Cambrian monoplacophorans and gastropods from western Hubei with their biostratigraphical significance1
Each of the 6 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 picture of Protoconus crestatus 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 Protoconus crestatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protoconus crestatus 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.
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What may have been alongside itProtoconus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yü 1979