Protoscutellidae

Protoscutella mississippiensis mississippiensis, a relative of Protoscutellidae — not Protoscutellidae itself

Not Protoscutellidae. This is Protoscutella mississippiensis mississippiensis, a relative — both are Protoscutellidae.

Zachos, Louis · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScutelliformesPBDB
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 131 occurrencesEocene — about 130 of 131 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 131 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 131 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 11 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 28 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 28 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 16 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 8 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 4 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

131 occurrences of Protoscutellidae 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

131 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

21 formations

Castle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WCastle Hayne — 34.97°N, 78.05°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.83°WCastle Hayne — 34.75°N, 77.43°WCastle Hayne — 34.87°N, 78.05°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.73°WCastle Hayne — 34.80°N, 78.02°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.57°WCastle Hayne — 35.33°N, 77.30°WCastle Hayne — 35.25°N, 77.44°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.51°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.50°N, 87.80°WMoodys Branch — 31.71°N, 87.78°WMoodys Branch — 31.31°N, 86.48°WMoodys Branch — 31.03°N, 85.86°WMoodys Branch — 31.03°N, 85.85°WMoodys Branch — 30.71°N, 84.86°WMoodys Branch — 31.55°N, 87.58°WMoodys Branch — 31.14°N, 87.94°WMoodys Branch — 32.70°N, 83.56°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.68°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.10°N, 86.09°WMoodys Branch — 31.57°N, 88.04°WMoodys Branch — 31.54°N, 87.52°WSantee 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 — 33.25°N, 80.45°WSantee Limestone — 33.18°N, 79.95°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.30°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WWinona — 32.17°N, 88.83°WWinona — 32.52°N, 88.51°WYazoo Clay — 31.50°N, 87.80°WYazoo Clay — 31.65°N, 87.71°WYazoo Clay — 31.26°N, 86.77°WLisbon — 31.20°N, 86.17°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.37°N, 84.93°WInglis Limestone — 28.92°N, 82.61°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.02°N, 82.62°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WTupelo Bay — 33.25°N, 80.45°WTupelo Bay — 33.47°N, 80.49°WCrystal River Limestone — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.93°N, 82.70°WTallahatta — 31.87°N, 88.32°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.51°N, 87.89°WGosport — 31.53°N, 87.95°WGosport — 31.29°N, 86.55°WMount Selman — 31.84°N, 98.61°WMount Selman — 31.85°N, 98.49°WOcala Limestone — 29.01°N, 82.68°WWarley Hill — 33.45°N, 80.16°WMiyara — 24.51°N, 124.26°EYazoo — 31.86°N, 88.70°WReklaw — 31.92°N, 94.68°WLake City — 31.15°N, 81.49°WCooper — 32.36°N, 85.59°WArcadia — 30.72°N, 85.53°W

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The named rock units Protoscutellidae 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.

Protoscutellidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Protoscutellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

511 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 108 sites for Protoscutellidae, 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

20 references

Each of the 131 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 mississippiensis mississippiensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Zachos, Louis
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Protoscutellidae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itScutelliformes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Durham 1955