Protopis

No picture of Protopis 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 Protopis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MysidiellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 215.38 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 3 of 11 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 7 of 11 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 11 occurrencesLate Triassic252–250 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–240 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248.6 Mya233.6 Mya251.5 Mya214.7 Mya

11 occurrences of Protopis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

11 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

Felsörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EFelsörs — 46.88°N, 17.63°EHanwang — 31.62°N, 104.43°EWetterstein — 48.50°N, 17.33°EVirgin — 37.03°N, 113.26°WMoenkopi — 37.08°N, 113.27°WCaerace — 45.05°N, 29.06°EBulog — 43.85°N, 18.46°E

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The named rock units Protopis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protopis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Protopis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Protopis, 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

9 references

Each of the 11 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 Protopis 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 Protopis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protopis 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 itMysidiellidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kittl 1903)