Protostrea sinensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtostreaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dimyidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dimyidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dimyidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
33 occurrences of Protostrea sinensis 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
33 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 Protostrea sinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protostrea sinensis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Protostrea sinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
212 taxa- Cassianella31 sites
- Cassianella simplex31 sites
- Elegantinia elegans26 sites
- Elegantinia23 sites
- Praechlamys23 sites
- Elegantarca subareata22 sites
- Pteria rugosa21 sites
- Diholkorhynchia sinensis20 sites
- Encrinus liliiformis20 sites
- Mentzelia subspherica20 sites
- Lopha19 sites
- Newaagia19 sites
- Weixiserpula19 sites
- Lepismatina hsui18 sites
- Qingyanocrinus kueichounensis18 sites
- Solenopora18 sites
- Wortheniella18 sites
- Angustothyris angustaeformis17 sites
- Arcavicula17 sites
- Balanocrinus17 sites
- Bivalvia17 sites
- Leptochondria17 sites
- Palaeonucula qingyanensis17 sites
- Pteria17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Protostrea sinensis, 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
2 references- Fossilvergesellschaftungen, Paläoökologie und paläosynökologische Entwicklung im Oberen Anisium (Mittlere Trias) von Qingyan, insbesondere Bangtoupo, Provinz Guizhou, Südwestchina20
- Middle Triassic (Anisian) diversified bivavles: depositional environments and bivalve assemblages in the Leidapo Member of the Qingyan Formation, southern China13
Each of the 33 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 Protostrea sinensis 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 Protostrea sinensis, 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.
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What may have been alongside itProtostrea through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hsu 1943)