Protorophus hispanicus
No picture of Protorophus hispanicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Protorophus hispanicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtorophusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 499.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Protorophus hispanicus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
1 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Protorophus hispanicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protorophus hispanicus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Protorophus hispanicus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Acadagnostus acadica1 site
- Bailiella heberti1 site
- Brahimorthis alvaroi1 site
- Ceratocystis1 site
- Condylopyge1 site
- Cothurnocystidae1 site
- Dibrachicystis purujoensis1 site
- Eocystites1 site
- Gogia1 site
- Gyrocystis platessa1 site
- Lichenoididae1 site
- Lingulida1 site
- Megagnostus1 site
- Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides)1 site
- Plaurocterium sp.1 site
- Redeagnostus ferox1 site
- Solenopleuropsis1 site
- Solenopleuropsis (Manublesia) thorali1 site
- Solenopleuropsis (Manublesia) verdiagana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Protorophus hispanicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Protorophus hispanicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Protorophus hispanicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protorophus hispanicus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itProtorophus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zamora and Smith 2010