Protovirgularia

No picture of Protovirgularia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Protovirgularia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 286 million years on record.

The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrences417–406 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences406–395 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–309 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences309–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences245–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–170 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–105 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences105–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences399.5 Mya113.2 Mya417 Mya94 Mya

6 occurrences of Protovirgularia 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

6 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

6 formations

Hunsrueck Slate — 49.87°N, 7.38°EPottsville — 33.81°N, 87.17°WMoenave — 37.09°N, 113.56°WShirindasht — 36.26°N, 51.85°EMeissner — 50.94°N, 11.25°EJinju — 35.23°N, 128.12°E

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The named rock units Protovirgularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Protovirgularia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Protovirgularia, 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

6 references

Each of the 6 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 Protovirgularia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Protovirgularia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Protovirgularia 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 itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1850