Protohymen curvatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtohymenPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Protohymen curvatus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Protohymen curvatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protohymen curvatus and its relatives
PermianWhere Protohymen curvatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Meganeuropsis americana3 sites
- Asthenohymen apicalis2 sites
- Asthenohymen latus2 sites
- Ditaxineura cellulosa2 sites
- Parelmoa radialis2 sites
- Phaneroneura martynovae2 sites
- Protohymen largus2 sites
- Alexandrinia directa1 site
- Anacontium carpenteri1 site
- Asthenohymen parvulus1 site
- Asthenohymen triangularis1 site
- Calohymen permianus1 site
- Elmoa trisecta1 site
- Eumartynovia raaschi1 site
- Homocladus grandis1 site
- Kennedya mirabilis1 site
- Kukalova americana1 site
- Misthodotes edmundsi1 site
- Misthodotes ovalis1 site
- Oligotypus tillyardi1 site
- Parelmoa obtusa1 site
- Parelmoa revelata1 site
- Phaneroneura reducta1 site
- Progoneura1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protohymen curvatus, 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
Media content1

Picture of Protohymen curvatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Protohymen curvatus 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 itProtohymen through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter 1947