Protowenella

No picture of Protowenella 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 Protowenella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtowenellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 500.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 499 Mya.

Cambrian — about 24 of 24 occurrencesCambrian526–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 1 occurrence520–519 Mya — about 1 occurrence519–518 Mya — about 1 occurrence518–517 Mya — about 1 occurrence517–516 Mya — about 1 occurrence516–515 Mya — about 1 occurrence515–514 Mya — about 1 occurrence514–513 Mya — about 1 occurrence513–512 Mya — about 1 occurrence512–511 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 2 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 2 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences516 Mya500.5 Mya526 Mya498.5 Mya

24 occurrences of Protowenella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

24 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

15 formations

Gowers — 19.56°S, 138.90°EGowers — 19.54°S, 138.90°EShackleton Limestone — 82.22°S, 160.31°EHenson Gletscher — 82.17°N, 40.40°WHenson Gletscher — 82.30°N, 37.05°WShabakty — 43.47°N, 69.87°EBeshtash — 42.17°N, 72.00°EYutaishan — 32.15°N, 116.17°ESoltanieh — 35.67°N, 51.42°EKuonamka — 70.74°N, 112.98°EMurrawong Creek — 31.30°S, 151.10°ETasman — 41.00°S, 173.00°EJbel Wawrmast — 32.00°N, 6.00°WKalby marl — 55.02°N, 14.92°EAndrarum Limestone — 55.02°N, 14.92°ECoonigan — 31.31°S, 142.18°ELower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°W

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

Protowenella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Protowenella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

272 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Protowenella, 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

14 references

Each of the 24 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. 2 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 content0

No picture of Protowenella 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 Protowenella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protowenella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itProtowenellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Runnegar and Jell 1976