Gigantoproductus

Gigantoproductus

Mike Hosken · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
GigantoproductiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 326.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 61 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 61 of 61 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 61 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 4 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 9 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 9 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 10 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 10 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 5 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 3 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 3 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 2 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335.9 Mya326.9 Mya360 Mya298 Mya

61 occurrences of Gigantoproductus 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

61 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

35 formations

Alacaagzi — 41.45°N, 31.82°EHeshilafu — 38.00°N, 77.00°EMount Head — 50.38°N, 114.61°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WHardrow Scar Limestone III — 54.30°N, 2.15°WBlackstokes Limestone — 54.42°N, 6.73°WDoulingshan — 24.45°N, 108.30°EKebir — 30.95°N, 1.57°WKebir — 31.08°N, 1.60°WClogrenan — 52.83°N, 6.92°WClogrenan — 52.68°N, 7.02°WGayle Shale — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone II — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMiddle Limestone V — 54.30°N, 2.15°WStainmore — 55.00°N, 1.75°WMurphy Road — 45.01°N, 64.13°WMilldale Limestone — 53.25°N, 1.78°WMaydown Limestone — 54.42°N, 6.73°WBlackwater Limestone — 54.42°N, 6.73°WFlagstaff Sandstone — 32.28°S, 151.63°ECeshui — 22.90°N, 113.00°EArarat — 32.42°S, 151.77°EDagangou — 36.08°N, 94.92°EHawes Limestone I — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone III Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IVa — 54.30°N, 2.15°W

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The named rock units Gigantoproductus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gigantoproductus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Gigantoproductus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

482 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Gigantoproductus, 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

20 references

Each of the 61 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. 8 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 content2

Picture of Gigantoproductus

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
AVZ
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itGigantoproductini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.