Prosserella
No picture of Prosserella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prosserella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ReticulariopsinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Prosserella 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
4 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
3 formations
- Sylvania Sandstone Formation2
- Lucas Formation · Detroit River Group1
- Lucas Formation1
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The named rock units Prosserella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prosserella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Prosserella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Hippocardia monroica3 sites
- Acanthonema holopiforme2 sites
- Cylindrophyllum2 sites
- Murchisonia anderdoniae2 sites
- Murchisonia subcarinata2 sites
- Acanthonema laxa1 site
- Camarotoechia semiplicata1 site
- Cladopora bifurcata1 site
- Meristospira1 site
- Murchisonia minuta1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Palaeozygopleura parvula1 site
- Panenka canadensis1 site
- Ptychomphalina lucina1 site
- Schuchertella1 site
- Trochonemopsis meekanum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Prosserella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Sylvania Sandstone of Northwestern Ohio2
- Middle Devonian Columbus Limestone Near Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada1
- New Upper siluric fauna from southern Michigan1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Prosserella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prosserella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itReticulariopsinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.