Protoscutella conradi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtoscutellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Protoscutella conradi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
16 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Protoscutella conradi 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.
Protoscutella conradi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Protoscutella conradi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
125 taxa- Cidaris pratti10 sites
- Chlamys8 sites
- Crassatella6 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis6 sites
- Eurhodia6 sites
- Crassatella texalta5 sites
- Eurhodia rugosa5 sites
- Ostrea5 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa5 sites
- Recurvaster5 sites
- Spondylus lamellacea5 sites
- Turritella5 sites
- Alectryonia ludoviciana4 sites
- Arcoidea4 sites
- Chama4 sites
- Coelopleurus infulatus4 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus4 sites
- Ficus4 sites
- Fusinus4 sites
- Linthia (Linthia) harmatuki4 sites
- Linthia hanoverensis4 sites
- Menippe4 sites
- Modiolus4 sites
- Pitar4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Protoscutella conradi, 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
3 references- The Echinoids of the Middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina10
- Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap5
- Stratigraphy of the Eocene Santee Limestone in three quarries of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
Each of the 16 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 Protoscutella conradi 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 Protoscutella conradi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protoscutella conradi 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 itProtoscutella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cotteau 1891)