Protolagena

No picture of Protolagena was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Protolagena 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EukaryotaPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 106 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 529 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 4 occurrencesCambrian637–633 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences633–630 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences630–626 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences626–622 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences622–619 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences619–615 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences615–611 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences611–608 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences608–604 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences604–600 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences600–597 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences597–593 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences593–589 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences589–586 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences586–582 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences582–578 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences578–575 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences575–571 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences571–567 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences567–564 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences564–560 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences560–556 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences556–553 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences553–549 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences549–545 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences545–542 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences542–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences637 Mya527 Mya

4 occurrences of Protolagena on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

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

2 formations

Dengying — 32.95°N, 106.45°EDengying — 32.97°N, 106.25°EDengying — 32.98°N, 106.27°EVillarta — 39.25°N, 4.78°W

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The named rock units Protolagena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Protolagena and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Protolagena and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Protolagena, 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

4 references

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Protolagena was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Protolagena 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.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Protolagena was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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What may have been alongside itEukaryota through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang and Li 1991