Productus

Productus

Uncredited · 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
ProductiniPBDB
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 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 300 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 300 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 300 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 195 of 300 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 101 of 300 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 300 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 300 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 300 occurrences445–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence363–356 Mya — about 6 occurrences356–349 Mya — about 16 occurrences349–341 Mya — about 10 occurrences341–334 Mya — about 31 occurrences334–327 Mya — about 41 occurrences327–319 Mya — about 42 occurrences319–312 Mya — about 18 occurrences312–304 Mya — about 10 occurrences304–297 Mya — about 26 occurrences297–290 Mya — about 20 occurrences290–282 Mya — about 12 occurrences282–275 Mya — about 6 occurrences275–267 Mya — about 5 occurrences267–260 Mya — about 18 occurrences260–253 Mya — about 30 occurrences253–245 Mya — about 7 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences230–223 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438.6 Mya237 Mya445 Mya223 Mya

300 occurrences of Productus 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

300 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

94 formations

Beech Creek — 39.23°N, 86.82°WBeech Creek — 39.14°N, 86.87°WBeech Creek — 39.13°N, 86.73°WBeech Creek — 39.05°N, 86.81°WBeech Creek — 38.95°N, 86.73°WBeech Creek — 38.94°N, 86.76°WBeech Creek — 38.83°N, 86.69°WBeech Creek — 38.70°N, 86.76°WBeech Creek — 38.71°N, 86.70°WBeech Creek — 38.62°N, 86.71°WGraham — 33.02°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 32.96°N, 98.72°WGraham — 32.96°N, 98.76°WGraham — 31.44°N, 99.34°WGraham — 33.01°N, 98.52°WStainmore — 54.58°N, 3.53°WStainmore — 54.99°N, 1.62°WStainmore — 54.93°N, 1.97°WStainmore — 55.00°N, 1.75°WStainmore — 54.59°N, 3.57°WFenestella Shales — 32.44°N, 77.75°EFenestella Shales — 32.05°N, 78.32°EFenestella Shales — 33.91°N, 75.29°EWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WCockhill Marine Band — 54.17°N, 1.87°WCockhill Marine Band — 54.00°N, 2.00°WCockhill Marine Band — 53.00°N, 2.00°WWargal — 32.47°N, 71.97°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.77°EWargal — 32.63°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.70°N, 71.65°EWargal — 32.28°N, 71.11°EBlack Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WHueco Canyon — 31.83°N, 106.09°WHueco Canyon — 31.93°N, 106.00°WHueco Canyon — 31.91°N, 106.09°WHueco Canyon — 31.96°N, 106.02°WEly Limestone — 39.46°N, 115.41°WSaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.22°WSaginaw Bay — 56.85°N, 134.13°WBird Spring — 36.55°N, 115.69°WBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.78°WBird Spring — 35.90°N, 115.24°WCarboniferous Limestone — 53.10°N, 1.57°WCarboniferous Limestone — 53.08°N, 1.87°WCarboniferous Limestone — 52.83°N, 2.00°WArroyo Penasco — 35.83°N, 106.86°WArroyo Penasco — 36.10°N, 106.80°WUrushten — 44.10°N, 40.08°ENeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WBlack Rock Limestone — 51.33°N, 2.74°WBaird — 40.75°N, 122.30°WEscabrosa Limestone — 31.66°N, 110.90°WEscabrosa Limestone — 31.66°N, 109.66°WHardrow Scar Limestone III — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHindsville — 36.30°N, 93.23°WZhesi — 42.67°N, 110.47°EZhesi — 42.65°N, 110.47°EParadise — 31.93°N, 109.22°WChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.72°N, 71.75°EChhidru — 32.88°N, 71.57°E

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The named rock units Productus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 70 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Productus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Productus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2,162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 255 sites for Productus, 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

91 references

Each of the 300 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. 79 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 Productus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Scarites Scarites productus · ETHZ:ENT:0577130

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.