Protoentactinia gracilispinosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtoentactiniaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At least 450 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
10 occurrences of Protoentactinia gracilispinosa on record. 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
10 occurrences- Cambrian50%
- Ordovician50%
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
3 formations
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group7
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group2
- Windfall Formation1
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The named rock units Protoentactinia gracilispinosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Pararcheoentactinia reedae9 sites
- Echidnina7 sites
- Echidnina irregularis4 sites
- Parechidnina jamesi4 sites
- Protoproventocitum aitchisoni4 sites
- Curvechidnina fusa3 sites
- Curvechidnina tetractina3 sites
- Decoriconus3 sites
- Echidnina bengtsoni3 sites
- Furnishina3 sites
- Palaeospiculum3 sites
- Palaeospiculum tetraradiatum3 sites
- Paltodus3 sites
- Prooneotodus gallatini3 sites
- Protoentactinia transformis3 sites
- Acodus deltatus2 sites
- Acodus similaris2 sites
- Archeoproventocitum nudiformum2 sites
- Archeoproventocitum retiformum2 sites
- Aspiculum densum2 sites
- Aspiculum jamesi2 sites
- Aspiculum multistratum2 sites
- Conodonta2 sites
- Curvechidnina kozuri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Protoentactinia gracilispinosa, 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
3 references- Late Cambrian radiolarian faunas and biostratigraphy of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland5
- Late Tremadocian radiolarian faunas and biostratigraphy of the Cow Head Group, Western Newfoundland, Canada4
- Well-preserved Tremadocian primitive Radiolaria from the Windfall Formation of the Antelope Range, Eureka County, Nevada, USA1
Each of the 10 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 Protoentactinia gracilispinosa 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 gracilispinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protoentactinia gracilispinosa 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 itProtoentactinia through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur et al. 1996