Protosycon punctatum
No picture of Protosycon punctatum 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 Protosycon punctatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtosyconPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 143.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Protosycon punctatum on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Protosycon punctatum and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Protosycon punctatum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Casearia articulata1 site
- Cribrospongia reticulata1 site
- Cypellia infundibuliformis1 site
- Cypellia rugosa1 site
- Hyalotragos rugosum1 site
- Laocoetis paradoxa1 site
- Pachyteichisma carteri1 site
- Peronella nodulosa1 site
- Platychonia auriformis1 site
- Platychonia vagans1 site
- Porocypellia piriformis1 site
- Porospongia impressa1 site
- Sporadopyle obliqua1 site
- Stauroderma lochense1 site
- Trochobolus crassicostus1 site
- Verrucocoelia verrucosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Protosycon punctatum, 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 reference- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each 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.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Protosycon punctatum 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 Protosycon punctatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protosycon punctatum 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 itProtosycon through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)