Protolenus (Hupeolenus)

No picture of Protolenus (Hupeolenus) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Protolenus (Hupeolenus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtolenusPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ellipsocephalidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 35 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 14 of 14 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences528–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 2 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 2 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 2 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 2 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 2 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 1 occurrence505–504 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences539.5 Mya503.8 Mya

14 occurrences of Protolenus (Hupeolenus) 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

14 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

4 formations

Valdemiedes — 41.17°N, 1.48°WValdemiedes — 41.55°N, 1.67°WTröbitz — 51.62°N, 13.35°EJbel Wawrmast — 31.52°N, 5.02°WJbel Wawrmast — 31.29°N, 5.50°WTatelt — 30.80°N, 8.27°W

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

Protolenus (Hupeolenus) and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Protolenus (Hupeolenus) and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Protolenus (Hupeolenus), 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

6 references

Each of the 14 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 Protolenus (Hupeolenus) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Protolenus (Hupeolenus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protolenus (Hupeolenus) 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geyer 1990)