Protomichelinia
Searched as Protomichelinia microtoma pingchuanensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Protomichelinia as the accepted name.
No picture of Protomichelinia 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 Protomichelinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicheliniidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Protomichelinia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Protomichelinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protomichelinia and its relatives
PermianWhere Protomichelinia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Multithecopora dendroidea5 sites
- Spinomarginifera spinosocostata4 sites
- Yatsengia4 sites
- Cystomichelinia3 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus3 sites
- Michelinia3 sites
- Polythecalis yangtzeensis3 sites
- Schwagerina3 sites
- Wentzellophyllum volzi3 sites
- Yatsengia asiatica3 sites
- Yatsengia hangchowensis3 sites
- Acosarina juresanensis2 sites
- Allotropiophyllum2 sites
- Buxtonia juresanensis2 sites
- Cleiothyridina uralica2 sites
- Dasysaria inca2 sites
- Eopolydiexodina persica2 sites
- Hayasakaia elegantula2 sites
- Hayasakaia raricystata2 sites
- Hayasakaia syringoporoides2 sites
- Hayasakaia yunnanensis2 sites
- Ipciphyllum laosense2 sites
- Kotlaia bistriata2 sites
- Minilya perelegans2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Protomichelinia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protomichelinia 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 Protomichelinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protomichelinia 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 itMicheliniidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yabe and Hayasaka 1915)