Protoperidinium

Protoperidinium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtoperidiniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesMiocene — about 17 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 50 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 19 of 50 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Protoperidinium on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

50 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.

Protoperidinium and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Protoperidinium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Protoperidinium, 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

11 references

Each of the 50 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

Picture of Protoperidinium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Protoperidinium 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 itProtoperidiniaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bergh 1881