Protopsium gesponsa
No picture of Protopsium gesponsa 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 gesponsa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtopsiumPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 182.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Protopsium gesponsa 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
7 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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 Protopsium gesponsa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protopsium gesponsa and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Protopsium gesponsa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
223 taxa- Paronaella corpulenta6 sites
- Actinomma5 sites
- Archaeocenosphaera5 sites
- Bistarkum5 sites
- Crucella theokaftensis5 sites
- Hsuum lucidum5 sites
- Spongotripus5 sites
- Zartus5 sites
- Anaticapitula anatiformis4 sites
- Archaeodictyomitra munda4 sites
- Bagotum modestum4 sites
- Bistarkum phantomense4 sites
- Citriduma4 sites
- Eucyrtidiellum4 sites
- Gorgansium4 sites
- Helvetocapsa minoensis4 sites
- Orbiculiformella callosa4 sites
- Parvicingula4 sites
- Plegmosphaera4 sites
- Praeconocaryomma decora4 sites
- Spongiomma4 sites
- Staurolonche4 sites
- Canoptum3 sites
- Dictyomitrella3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Protopsium gesponsa, 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
4 references- Toarcian Radiolaria from Mt. Mangart (Slovenian^Italian border) and their paleoecological implications4
- Gorican et al., 20061
- Toarcian (Early Jurassic) radiolarian fauna from the Nanjo Massif in the Mino Terrane, central Japan1
- Parasaturnalidae, Pantanellidae et Sponguridae (Radiolaires polycystines) du Lias de Turquie1
Each of the 7 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 gesponsa 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 gesponsa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protopsium gesponsa 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 itProtopsium through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Wever 1981