Protorcula

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtorculidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 54 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 54 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 12 of 54 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 40 of 54 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 54 occurrencesEarly Jurassic266–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–238 Mya — about 5 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 11 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 16 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–226 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences224–221 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences219–216 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 3 occurrences209–206 Mya — about 3 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 2 occurrences204–201 Mya — about 1 occurrence201–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–196 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences194–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259.857 Mya199.5 Mya266 Mya191 Mya

54 occurrences of Protorcula on record, most of them in the Late 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

54 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

14 formations

Cassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.65°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ENayband — 32.52°N, 57.37°ENayband — 32.00°N, 57.00°ENayband — 32.37°N, 57.47°ENayband — 33.34°N, 51.91°ENayband — 33.07°N, 52.03°ESchlern — 46.51°N, 11.57°ESciliar — 46.35°N, 12.02°EMartin Bridge Limestone — 46.33°N, 116.73°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 45.12°N, 116.77°WMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ENehenta — 55.17°N, 131.80°WAkasaka — 35.39°N, 136.58°ERaibl — 46.50°N, 11.67°EBetakalkbank — 48.33°N, 8.93°EFogi — 3.23°S, 126.12°EFatu — 9.93°S, 123.83°EOberrhät — 47.70°N, 13.25°E

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The named rock units Protorcula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protorcula and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Protorcula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,296 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Protorcula, 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

22 references

Each of the 54 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Protorcula 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 Protorcula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protorcula 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 itProtorculidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kittl 1894)