Protoentactinia

No picture of Protoentactinia 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 Protoentactinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtoentactiniidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 25 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 20 of 25 occurrencesOrdovician498–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 1 occurrence488–487 Mya — about 1 occurrence487–486 Mya — about 2 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 3 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 3 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 3 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 3 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya468 Mya497.8 Mya457.4 Mya

25 occurrences of Protoentactinia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

25 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

4 formations

Green Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°WGreen Point — 49.83°N, 57.87°WGreen Point — 49.78°N, 57.84°WWindfall — 39.20°N, 116.26°WValhallfonna — 78.90°N, 18.02°EShallow Bay — 49.77°N, 57.92°W

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

Protoentactinia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Protoentactinia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Protoentactinia, 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

Each of the 25 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 content0

No picture of Protoentactinia 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 Protoentactinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protoentactinia 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 itProtoentactiniidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur et al. 1996