Protoscutella

Protoscutella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtoscutellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 20.45 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEocene — about 46 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya27.3 Mya56.7 Mya19.7 Mya

47 occurrences of Protoscutella on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

47 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

9 formations

Santee Limestone — 33.45°N, 80.16°WSantee Limestone — 33.51°N, 80.49°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.28°N, 80.41°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.30°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WCastle Hayne — 34.87°N, 78.05°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.73°WCastle Hayne — 34.80°N, 78.02°WCastle Hayne — 35.33°N, 77.30°WCastle Hayne — 35.25°N, 77.44°WWinona — 32.17°N, 88.83°WWinona — 32.52°N, 88.51°WTupelo Bay — 33.25°N, 80.45°WTupelo Bay — 33.47°N, 80.49°WTallahatta — 31.87°N, 88.32°WMount Selman — 31.84°N, 98.61°WMount Selman — 31.85°N, 98.49°WWarley Hill — 33.45°N, 80.16°WReklaw — 31.92°N, 94.68°WArcadia — 30.72°N, 85.53°W

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The named rock units Protoscutella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protoscutella and its relatives

Eocene

Where Protoscutella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Protoscutella, 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

10 references

Each of the 47 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

Media content1

Picture of Protoscutella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProtoscutellidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stefanini 1924