Prionites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrionitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 250 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 55 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 54 of 55 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 55 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 55 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 55 occurrences256–248 Mya — about 54 occurrences248–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence250.8 Mya11.7 ka256 Mya0 Mya

55 occurrences of Prionites on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

55 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

11 formations

Kangshare — 28.66°N, 85.82°EKangshare — 28.57°N, 85.96°EKangshare — 28.52°N, 86.69°EZhitkov — 43.32°N, 132.17°EZhitkov — 43.43°N, 132.44°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.55°N, 71.79°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.66°N, 71.80°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.52°N, 72.10°EToad — 59.40°N, 124.89°WToad — 59.00°N, 124.00°WTulong — 28.45°N, 86.13°EMikin — 31.95°N, 78.02°ECeratite Sandstone — 32.41°N, 72.10°ECeratite Sandstone — 32.52°N, 71.93°EKockatea Shale — 28.35°S, 114.62°EBlind Fiord — 80.85°N, 89.22°WKhunamuh — 34.09°N, 74.98°EKongressfjellet — 78.25°N, 18.06°E

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The named rock units Prionites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prionites and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Prionites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

184 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Prionites, 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

17 references

Each of the 55 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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

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No picture of Prionites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Prionites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Prionites 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.

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What may have been alongside itPrionitidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1895