Protomelission gatehousei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtomelissionPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 514.5 Mya to 512.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 508.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCambrian521–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences514.5 Mya512.1 Mya521.5 Mya507.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Protomelission gatehousei 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

3 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

Wirrealpa Limestone — 31.15°S, 138.93°EWirrealpa Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.93°EShuijingtuo — 32.49°N, 107.12°E

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

Protomelission gatehousei and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Protomelission gatehousei and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protomelission gatehousei, 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

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Protomelission gatehousei · mu:pal:ELI XYB 4 AN02

No picture of Protomelission gatehousei 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 Protomelission gatehousei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itProtomelission through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brock and Cooper 1993