Productella
Searched as Productella productoiodes sinensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Productella as the accepted name.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- ProductellinaePBDB
- 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 most 5.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Productella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Productella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Productella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Productella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
909 taxa- Crinoidea63 sites
- Camarotoechia57 sites
- Leiorhynchus56 sites
- Cyrtospirifer54 sites
- Ambocoelia50 sites
- Schizophoria50 sites
- Mucrospirifer44 sites
- Douvillina43 sites
- Cyrtina41 sites
- Rhipidomella38 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)38 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta37 sites
- Athyris35 sites
- Spinatrypa32 sites
- Atrypa31 sites
- Bryozoa31 sites
- Actinopteria29 sites
- Chonetes29 sites
- Spirifer28 sites
- Schuchertella26 sites
- Tylothyris26 sites
- Cypricardella25 sites
- Fenestella21 sites
- Eoschizodus20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 352 sites for Productella, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1

Picture of Productella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Productella was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itProductellinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.