Protophyllum

No picture of Protophyllum was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Protophyllum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlantaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 370 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 15 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences441–427 Mya — about 3 occurrences427–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426.7 Mya56 Mya441 Mya26 Mya

15 occurrences of Protophyllum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

15 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

7 formations

Eagle — 44.98°N, 108.87°WKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°EWuyun — 49.28°N, 129.67°EGolden Valley — 47.98°N, 102.05°WGolden Valley — 47.31°N, 102.11°WBlackleaf — 48.30°N, 113.37°WDunvegan — 55.70°N, 121.17°WShulan — 44.33°N, 127.00°E

Loading coastlines…

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

Protophyllum and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Protophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Protophyllum, 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

6 references

Each of the 15 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

Media content0

No picture of Protophyllum was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Protophyllum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Protophyllum 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 itPlantae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesquereux 1874