Protomya
No picture of Protomya 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 Protomya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrammysiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 69 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
2 occurrences of Protomya 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician50%
- Devonian50%
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
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The named rock units Protomya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protomya and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Protomya and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Actinopteria1 site
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Amphilichas1 site
- Anchoramena1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Bembexia1 site
- Bicuspina1 site
- Bystromena1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Campylorthis1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Cornellites1 site
- Crenistriella1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyrtina1 site
- Cystoporata1 site
- Delthyris1 site
- Devonochonetes1 site
- Dicellograptus1 site
- Dicranograptus1 site
- Dinorthis1 site
- Elita1 site
- Encrinurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protomya, 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- Una fauna de bivalvos en la Formacion Santa Gertrudis (Ordovicico) de la Provincia de Salta (Argentina)1
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Protomya 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 Protomya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protomya 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGrammysiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.