Protopis triptycha
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtopisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Protopis triptycha 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
2 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Protopis triptycha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protopis triptycha and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Protopis triptycha and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Acilia1 site
- Arcestes1 site
- Arcoptera canaliculata1 site
- Atractites1 site
- Avicula grabovicensis1 site
- Daonella (Arzelella) bulogensis1 site
- Daonella (Pichlerella) pichleri1 site
- Gervilleia bosniaca1 site
- Gymnites1 site
- Lepidotrochus1 site
- Lima subpunctata1 site
- Myoconcha appeli1 site
- Mysidioptera kittlii1 site
- Norella retractifrons1 site
- Nucula1 site
- Nucula expansa1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Palaeoneilo elliptica1 site
- Pecten marginiplicatus1 site
- Pecten sarajevensis1 site
- Pecten subconcentricus1 site
- Pexidella marmorea1 site
- Phaenodesmia1 site
- Plagiostoma aequilateralis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protopis triptycha, 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
1 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Protopis triptycha was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protopis triptycha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProtopis through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kittl 1903