Protozyga definitiva
No picture of Protozyga definitiva was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Protozyga definitiva, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtozygaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Protozyga definitiva on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
10 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Daylesford Limestone Formation3
- Belubula Formation2
- Belubula Limestone Formation · Cliefden Caves Group2
- Fossil Hill Limestone Formation1
- Quondong Limestone Formation1
- Billabong Creek Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Protozyga definitiva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protozyga definitiva and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Protozyga definitiva and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Australispira6 sites
- Zygospira6 sites
- Bowanorthis fragilis4 sites
- Rhynchotrema oepiki4 sites
- Anoptambonites exedra3 sites
- Bajgolia3 sites
- Coccoseris3 sites
- Didymelasma3 sites
- Phaceloorthis decoris3 sites
- Ptychopleurella decretoria3 sites
- Quondongia alitis3 sites
- Sowerbyites isotes3 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- Clathrodictyon2 sites
- Dinorthis hadra2 sites
- Doleroides mixticius2 sites
- Ecclimadictyon2 sites
- Encrinuraspis2 sites
- Eridorthis australis2 sites
- Hesperorthis barbata2 sites
- Labechia2 sites
- Mabella halis2 sites
- Paraonychoplecia inversa2 sites
- Paromalomena zheni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Protozyga definitiva, 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 10 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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No picture of Protozyga definitiva was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Protozyga definitiva, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protozyga definitiva 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 itProtozyga through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Percival 1991