Protulophila

Protulophila is a genus of symbiotic or commensal colonial Hydrozoa, known from very small hydroids. These marine hydroids live in the shelly tubes of serpulid tube worms, which are annelids.

Protulophila

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnthoathecataPBDB
Diet
carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hydrozoa

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous160–158 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157.9 Mya93.9 Mya160 Mya88 Mya

2 occurrences of Protulophila on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

2 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

2 formations

West Walton — 52.18°N, 0.12°ETeplice — 50.45°N, 14.05°E

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

Protulophila and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Protulophila and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

80 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protulophila, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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

Media content1

Picture of Protulophila

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Protulophila 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAnthoathecata through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rovereto 1901