Protomegastrophia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptostrophiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Leptostrophiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Leptostrophiidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Leptostrophiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 118 occurrencesSilurian — about 116 of 118 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 118 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 6 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 7 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 6 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 6 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 6 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 22 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 26 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 12 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 11 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 6 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438.6 Mya410.62 Mya444 Mya398.6 Mya

118 occurrences of Protomegastrophia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

118 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

37 formations

Racine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 92.00°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 50.05°N, 14.37°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.13°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EReynales — 43.26°N, 77.16°WReynales — 43.16°N, 79.05°WReynales — 43.21°N, 78.51°WReynales — 43.20°N, 77.62°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.33°WLa Vieille — 48.18°N, 64.97°WLa Vieille — 47.83°N, 65.50°WLa Vieille — 47.75°N, 67.00°WLa Vieille — 48.20°N, 64.80°WHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.50°N, 91.50°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WIrondequoit — 43.16°N, 79.05°WIrondequoit — 43.20°N, 77.62°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WIrondequoit — 43.26°N, 76.70°WHerkimer — 43.12°N, 75.60°WHerkimer — 43.06°N, 75.40°WHerkimer — 43.04°N, 75.36°WHerkimer — 43.03°N, 75.28°WJoslin Hill — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WWeir — 48.27°N, 65.08°WWeir — 48.18°N, 64.97°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°ESteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°EJaani — 58.51°N, 22.00°EJaani — 58.62°N, 22.90°ELockport — 43.15°N, 77.62°WFerriters Cove — 52.13°N, 10.25°WPentamerus Beds — 52.60°N, 2.55°WRochester Shale — 43.16°N, 77.62°WManistique — 45.06°N, 87.12°WRockway — 43.15°N, 77.06°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.21°N, 77.58°WBrassfield — 39.34°N, 85.48°WUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°E

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The named rock units Protomegastrophia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protomegastrophia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Protomegastrophia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,052 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Protomegastrophia, 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

34 references

Each of the 118 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. 22 further references are not listed. 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 Protomegastrophia 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 Protomegastrophia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protomegastrophia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Caster 1939