Protorotella
No picture of Protorotella 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 Protorotella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UmboniinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Protorotella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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 Protorotella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protorotella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Protorotella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Acila (Acila) submirabilis3 sites
- Anadara3 sites
- Boreotrophon2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Cyclocardia2 sites
- Dosinia (Phacosoma)2 sites
- Fissidentalium2 sites
- Macoma2 sites
- Mizuhopecten2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
- Nucula (Lamellinucula)2 sites
- Periploma2 sites
- Portlandia2 sites
- Thracia2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Acmaea1 site
- Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)1 site
- Adulomya chitanii1 site
- Ampullonatica1 site
- Ancistrolepis1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Atrina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protorotella, 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- Characteristics of the Miocene molluscan assemblages from central San-in District, Southwest Honshu, Japan2
- Chemosymbiotic Bivalves from the Lower Miocene Kurosedani Formation in Toyama Prefecture, Central Honshu, Japan1
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. 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 Protorotella 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 Protorotella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protorotella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itUmboniinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Makiyama 1925