Protoheliolites

Protoheliolites

Mõtus, Mari-Ann · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
ProheliolitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At most 7.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.3 Mya444.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Protoheliolites 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

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

Adila — 58.97°N, 23.16°EAdila — 58.91°N, 23.02°EXiazhen — 28.75°N, 118.42°E

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

Protoheliolites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Protoheliolites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protoheliolites, 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

2 references

Each 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

Media content1

Picture of Protoheliolites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Mõtus, Mari-Ann
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Protoheliolites was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itProheliolitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bondarenko 1977