Protarea sp.

No picture of Protarea sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Protarea sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 7 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 7 occurrencesSilurian469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458.2 Mya426.7 Mya468.9 Mya421.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Protarea sp. on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

7 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

5 formations

Read Bay — 74.83°N, 93.43°WArnheim — 35.50°N, 86.50°WXiaqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°EBig Hill — 45.83°N, 86.95°WWhitewater — 39.58°N, 84.75°W

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The named rock units Protarea sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protarea sp. and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Protarea sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Protarea sp., 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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

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No picture of Protarea sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Protarea sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.