Protowenella plena
No picture of Protowenella plena was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata and 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 plena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtowenellaPBDB
- 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 most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 516 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Protowenella plena 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Protowenella plena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protowenella plena and its relatives
CambrianWhere Protowenella plena and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Amphigeisina renae4 sites
- Chancelloria4 sites
- Eiffelia araniformis4 sites
- Lenastella mucronata4 sites
- Adyshevitheca utchbasica3 sites
- Allonia3 sites
- Burithes elongatus3 sites
- Cambroclavus clavus3 sites
- Hyolithellus vladimirovae3 sites
- Microcornus3 sites
- Microcornus parvulus3 sites
- Microdictyon effusum3 sites
- Mobergella scutata3 sites
- Ninella serebrjannikovae3 sites
- Adyshevitheca adyshevi2 sites
- Asijatheca probata2 sites
- Beshtashella tortilis2 sites
- Lenastella aculeata2 sites
- Pelagiella lorenzi2 sites
- Stenothecoides minutus2 sites
- Torellella explicata2 sites
- Aktugaia triangula1 site
- Asijatheca1 site
- Cambroclavus antis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Protowenella plena, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protowenella plena was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata and 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 plena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protowenella plena 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 itProtowenella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981