Protowenella flemingi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtowenellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 508 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 511.2 Mya to 499.5 Mya.
9 occurrences of Protowenella flemingi 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
9 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
5 formations
- Gowers Formation3
- Henson Gletscher Formation3
- Kalby marl Formation1
- Andrarum Limestone Formation1
- Coonigan Formation1
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The named rock units Protowenella flemingi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protowenella flemingi and its relatives
CambrianWhere Protowenella flemingi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Mellopegma georginense4 sites
- Dorispira accordionata3 sites
- Pelagiella deltoides3 sites
- Acanthotheca junior2 sites
- Corystos thorntoniensis2 sites
- Costipelagiella nevadense2 sites
- Dietericambria hensoniensis2 sites
- Eocrinoidea2 sites
- Eotebenna pontifex2 sites
- Figurina2 sites
- Gapparodus bisulcatus2 sites
- Helcionella2 sites
- Helcionellida2 sites
- Hyolithellus2 sites
- Inuitiphlaskus kouchinskyi2 sites
- Laugephakos groenlandicus2 sites
- Liangshanella qassutit2 sites
- Mellopegma2 sites
- Mongolitubulus reticulatus2 sites
- Pseudomyona queenslandica2 sites
- Stenothecella sibirica2 sites
- Stenothecoides terraglaciei2 sites
- Torellella2 sites
- Yochelcionella snorkorum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Protowenella flemingi, 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
5 references- Middle Cambrian (Miaolingian Series, Wuliuan Stage) molluscs and mollusc-like microfossils from North Greenland (Laurentia).3
- New data on molluscs and their shell microstructures from the Middle Cambrian Gowers Formation, Australia2
- Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution2
- Tuarangia from Bornholm (Denmark) and similarities in Baltoscandian and Australasian late Middle Cambrian faunas1
- Middle Cambrian monoplacophorans from Bornholm and Australia, and the systematic position of bellerophontiform molluscs1
Each of the 9 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. 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 Protowenella flemingi 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 Protowenella flemingi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protowenella flemingi 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 itProtowenella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Runnegar and Jell 1976