Protoentactinia transformis
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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 most 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Protoentactinia transformis 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group3
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The named rock units Protoentactinia transformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protoentactinia transformis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Protoentactinia transformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Pararcheoentactinia reedae3 sites
- Protoentactinia gracilispinosa3 sites
- Protoproventocitum aitchisoni3 sites
- Archeoproventocitum nudiformum2 sites
- Archeoproventocitum retiformum2 sites
- Aspiculum densum2 sites
- Aspiculum jamesi2 sites
- Aspiculum multistratum2 sites
- Decoriconus2 sites
- Echidnina2 sites
- Echidnina bengtsoni2 sites
- Neopalaeospiculum transformum2 sites
- Palaeospiculum neofurcatum2 sites
- Pararcheoentactinia cowheadensis2 sites
- Pararcheoentactinia stilla2 sites
- Protoentactinia kozuriana2 sites
- Protoentactinia primigena2 sites
- Protospongentactinia spongiosa2 sites
- Scolopodus2 sites
- Scolopodus acontiodiformis angularis2 sites
- Striatodontus2 sites
- Striatodontus prolificus2 sites
- Variabiliconus variabilis2 sites
- Westernbrookia ovata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protoentactinia transformis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 doi.org. 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 transformis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protoentactinia transformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Won et al. 2005