Protomichelinia

No picture of Protomichelinia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Protomichelinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicheliniidaePBDB
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 least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 72 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 71 of 72 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 72 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 3 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 3 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 3 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 6 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 6 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 6 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 6 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 5 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 4 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 4 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 7 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 10 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307 Mya254.14 Mya316 Mya251 Mya

72 occurrences of Protomichelinia 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

72 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

15 formations

Qixia — 31.63°N, 117.83°EQixia — 32.15°N, 118.96°EQixia — 31.76°N, 118.14°EQixia — 30.99°N, 119.56°EQixia — 32.08°N, 119.03°EQixia — 29.00°N, 117.30°EQixia — 27.05°N, 113.90°EQixia — 31.70°N, 118.10°EQixia — 24.07°N, 108.66°EQixia — 24.66°N, 116.16°EQixia — 23.71°N, 109.22°EQixia — 26.09°N, 106.57°EQixia — 27.30°N, 105.28°EQixia — 27.66°N, 106.78°EQixia — 26.91°N, 109.20°EQixia — 25.10°N, 106.40°EQixia — 24.85°N, 107.68°EMaokou — 29.58°N, 110.11°EMaokou — 24.61°N, 112.60°EMaokou — 26.72°N, 105.80°EMaokou — 25.67°N, 104.70°ESurmaq — 30.91°N, 53.22°ESurmaq — 31.05°N, 52.88°ERuteh — 35.97°N, 51.54°EZinnar — 37.28°N, 43.36°EZinnar — 37.28°N, 43.20°ENakadaira — 38.98°N, 141.32°EGnishik — 38.88°N, 45.40°EDouling — 26.55°N, 112.50°EAbadeh — 30.91°N, 53.22°EKhaftkala — 34.15°N, 63.32°EGundara — 38.45°N, 70.48°EChangxing — 26.94°N, 105.44°ESisophon — 13.59°N, 102.96°ERandkalk — 38.25°N, 31.50°EKhachik — 38.90°N, 45.50°E

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The named rock units Protomichelinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protomichelinia and its relatives

Permian

Where Protomichelinia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Protomichelinia, 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

20 references

Each of the 72 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. 8 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Protomichelinia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Protomichelinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protomichelinia 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 itMicheliniidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yabe and Hayasaka 1915)