Protolenus densigranulatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtolenusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ellipsocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Protolenus densigranulatus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
12 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
- Jbel Wawrmast Formation · Feijas internes Group12
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The named rock units Protolenus densigranulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protolenus densigranulatus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Protolenus densigranulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Andalusiana telesto4 sites
- Kingaspis (Kingaspis) campbelli4 sites
- Hamatolenus (Hamatolenus) vincenti3 sites
- Morocconus notabilis3 sites
- Kingaspis2 sites
- Kingaspis sarhoensis2 sites
- Onaraspis altus2 sites
- "Alueva" moratrix1 site
- Acadoparadoxides deani1 site
- Acadoparadoxides levisetti1 site
- Acadoparadoxides mureroensis1 site
- Acadoparadoxides nobilis1 site
- Acadoparadoxides ovatopyge1 site
- Acadoparadoxides pampalius1 site
- Acanthomicmacca1 site
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) neltneri1 site
- Alueva1 site
- Alueva undulata1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Atlascystis acantha1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Chancelooria sp.1 site
- Cobboldites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Protolenus densigranulatus, 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
5 references- The Paradoxides puzzle resolved: the appearance of the oldest paradoxidines and its bearing on the Cambrian Series 3 lower boundary6
- Open quarry of the Brèche à Micmacca Member crossing the ‘telesto level’at Assemame, central Anti-Atlas3
- Morphological assessment of the earliest paradoxidid trilobites (Cambrian Series 3) from Morocco and Spain1
- Cambrian spiral-plated echinoderms from Gondwana reveal the earliest pentaradial body plan1
- Middle Cambrian fossils from Tizi n`Tichka, the High Atlas, Morocco. Part 1. Introduction and trilobites1
Each of the 12 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 Protolenus densigranulatus 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 Protolenus densigranulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protolenus densigranulatus 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 itProtolenus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geyer 1990)