Protula

Protula is a genus of marine polychaete worms in the family Serpulidae.

Protula

Seascapeza · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
SerpulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulidae

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 20 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 20 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 20 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences121.4 Mya129 ka128 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Protula on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

20 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

9 formations

Torehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°ETorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 63.00°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WChengapara — 25.33°N, 90.23°EMulege — 27.07°N, 111.97°WOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°ETukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°W

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The named rock units Protula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Protula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,464 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Protula, 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

18 references

Each of the 20 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Protula

Credit
Seascapeza
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSerpulidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Risso 1826