Prionites involutus
No picture of Prionites involutus 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 involutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrionitesPBDB
- 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 most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 248.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Prionites involutus 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
9 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Prionites involutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prionites involutus and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Prionites involutus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Owenites koeneni6 sites
- Stephanites superbus6 sites
- Mianwaliites multiradiatus4 sites
- Nyalamites angustecostatus4 sites
- Pseudosageceras multilobatum4 sites
- Subvishnuites4 sites
- Owenites carpenteri2 sites
- Prionites tuberculatus2 sites
- Subflemingites compressus2 sites
- Anaxenaspis orientale1 site
- Dieneroceras1 site
- Dieneroceras dieneri1 site
- Inyoites1 site
- Inyoites oweni1 site
- Lanceolites compactus1 site
- Parussuria compressa1 site
- Shigetaceras1 site
- Xenoceltitidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Prionites involutus, 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
2 references- High-resolution Early Triassic ammonoid biostratigraphy of South Tibet, China and implications for global correlations7
- Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from Tulong, south Tibet2
Each of the 9 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 Prionites involutus 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 involutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prionites involutus 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 itPrionites through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brühwiler et al. 2010