Protocystites

Protocystites

Mr Mark Lewis · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
CornutaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cornuta
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cornuta
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cornuta
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stylophora
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 494.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCambrian505–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499.5 Mya497 Mya505 Mya493.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Protocystites 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

2 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

2 formations

Menevia — 51.87°N, 5.22°WMaentwrog — 52.93°N, 3.94°W

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The named rock units Protocystites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Protocystites and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Protocystites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protocystites, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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

Media content1

Picture of Protocystites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Mr Mark Lewis
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Protocystites 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 itCornuta through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hicks 1872