Ptychomphalina protei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychomphalinaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237 Mya205.7 Mya247.9 Mya200.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Ptychomphalina protei on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

4 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

1 formation

Cassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°E

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The named rock units Ptychomphalina protei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptychomphalina protei and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Ptychomphalina protei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

481 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ptychomphalina protei, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Ptychomphalina protei 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 Ptychomphalina protei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ptychomphalina protei 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 itPtychomphalina through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Münster 1841)