Protopsium

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AngulobracchiidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 8 of 29 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 29 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 16 of 29 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 29 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 29 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 29 occurrences251–247 Mya — about 8 occurrences247–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–240 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences193–190 Mya — about 4 occurrences190–186 Mya — about 4 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 8 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences172–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247 Mya149.2 Mya251 Mya143 Mya

29 occurrences of Protopsium on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

29 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

Sögütlü dere — 37.18°N, 30.15°EAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WOgmata — 36.07°N, 138.98°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°E

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The named rock units Protopsium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protopsium and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Protopsium and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

394 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Protopsium, 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 29 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

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

No 3D scan of Protopsium 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 itAngulobracchiidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pessagno and Poisson 1981