Prantlia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WarburgellinaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 438.8 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.8 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
14 occurrences of Prantlia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
14 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
10 formations
- Kopanina Formation3
- Road River Formation2
- Coalbrookdale Formation2
- Dobele Formation1
- Black Bog Formation1
- Silverdale Formation1
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The named rock units Prantlia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prantlia and its relatives
SilurianWhere Prantlia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
249 taxa- Salopina5 sites
- Brachiopoda4 sites
- Bryozoa4 sites
- Coelospira4 sites
- Gastropoda4 sites
- Nautiloidea4 sites
- Septatrypa4 sites
- Balizoma3 sites
- Batocara3 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Cardiola3 sites
- Cephalopoda3 sites
- Ceratocephala3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Diacanthaspis3 sites
- Encrinuraspis3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Heliolites3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Kosovopeltis3 sites
- Leptaena3 sites
- Metacalymene3 sites
- Morinorhynchus3 sites
- Otarion diffractum3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Prantlia, 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
6 references- Australian communities4
- British Ordovician and Silurian Proetidae (Trilobita)4
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia2
- Silurian trilobites from the northern Yukon Territory2
- Selected brachiopod and trilobite communities of the East Baltic Silurian1
- Ecostratigraphy of Silurian trilobite assemblages of the Barrandian area, Czechoslovakia1
Each of the 14 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. 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 content1
Picture of Prantlia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Prantlia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itWarburgellinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pribyl 1946