Protowentzelella variabilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtowentzelellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPermian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesPermian299–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 1 occurrence293–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–291 Mya — about 1 occurrence291–291 Mya — about 1 occurrence291–290 Mya — about 1 occurrence290–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293.52 Mya290.1 Mya299.4 Mya282.8 Mya

20 occurrences of Protowentzelella variabilis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

20 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

8 formations

Bird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.76°WBird Spring — 35.98°N, 116.97°WBird Spring — 36.44°N, 115.58°WBird Spring — 34.96°N, 115.52°WBelcher Channel — 78.38°N, 85.64°WBelcher Channel — 76.96°N, 95.37°WRaanes — 77.61°N, 86.24°WRaanes — 76.94°N, 95.38°WDarwin Canyon — 36.30°N, 117.52°WMcCloud — 40.70°N, 122.28°WBelcourt — 54.33°N, 120.39°WNansen — 78.15°N, 85.75°WGreat Bear Cape — 76.96°N, 95.37°W

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The named rock units Protowentzelella variabilis 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.

Protowentzelella variabilis and its relatives

Permian

Where Protowentzelella variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Protowentzelella variabilis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 20 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protowentzelella variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itProtowentzelella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fedorowski 1965