Protocosta struveae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtocostaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Protocosta struveae on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous30%
- Paleocene71%
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 Protocosta struveae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protocosta struveae and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Protocosta struveae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Actinocythereis indigena2 sites
- Actinocythereis rex2 sites
- Huantraiconella prima2 sites
- Krithe rocana2 sites
- Munseyella laurea2 sites
- Petalocythereis schilleri2 sites
- Togoina australis2 sites
- Bairdia anachoreta1 site
- Bythoceratina rocana1 site
- Bythocythere costata1 site
- Cibicidoides alleni1 site
- Cibicidoides vulgaris1 site
- Costa1 site
- Cytherella1 site
- Cytherella australoamericana1 site
- Cytherella bullata1 site
- Cytherella utilis1 site
- Cytherelloidea patagonica1 site
- Cytherelloidea spirocostata1 site
- Glandulina laevigata1 site
- Globulina gibba1 site
- Globulina inaequalis1 site
- Guttulina lactea1 site
- Guttulina luisae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protocosta struveae, 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
2 references- Ostracodes of the type locality of the Lower Tertiary (lower Danian) Rocanian Stage and Roca Formation of Argentina1
- Micropaleontología y estratigrafía del límite Cretácico-Terciario en Huantraico (provincia de Neuquén)1
Each of the 2 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 Protocosta struveae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protocosta struveae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protocosta struveae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProtocosta through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bertels 1969