Protosurcula

Protosurcula

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 79 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 79 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 74 of 79 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 11 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 11 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences61.66 Mya41.03 Mya66.6 Mya37.1 Mya

79 occurrences of Protosurcula 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

79 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

11 formations

Cook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.19°N, 95.84°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WWeches — 31.76°N, 93.09°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.90°N, 96.39°WWeches — 30.23°N, 97.52°WWeches — 31.56°N, 94.50°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WKosciusko — 32.17°N, 88.83°WYegua — 30.24°N, 96.98°WSeguin — 30.23°N, 97.42°WSantiago — 33.77°N, 117.68°W

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The named rock units Protosurcula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Protosurcula and its relatives

Eocene

Where Protosurcula and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

814 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Protosurcula, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

11 references

Each of the 79 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 content1

Picture of Protosurcula

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Schepsel Schelp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1904