Protriticites

Protriticites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FusulinellinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 315.2 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 92 of 92 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 92 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 2 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 2 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 2 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 2 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 10 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 11 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 11 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 11 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 11 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 9 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315.7 Mya298.4 Mya

92 occurrences of Protriticites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

92 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

7 formations

Foldedal — 80.64°N, 16.33°WWordiekammen — 78.64°N, 15.03°EMeledis — 46.60°N, 13.08°EMeledis — 46.59°N, 13.12°EGavuralani — 38.13°N, 35.40°EGavuralani — 36.16°N, 33.33°EBombaso — 46.60°N, 13.12°EDemirkazik — 38.13°N, 35.40°E

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The named rock units Protriticites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protriticites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Protriticites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

76 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Protriticites, 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

6 references

Each of the 92 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 Protriticites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Protriticites 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 itFusulinellinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.