Prionocyclus germari
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrionocyclusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Prionocyclus germari on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Prionocyclus germari has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prionocyclus germari and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Prionocyclus germari and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Eubostrychoceras matsumotoi3 sites
- Cremnoceramus2 sites
- Forresteria2 sites
- Aporrhais1 site
- Cardium (Protocardia) pauli1 site
- Hypophylloceras1 site
- Mytiloides1 site
- Pinna cretacea1 site
- Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi1 site
- Prionocyclus hyatti1 site
- Pseudolimea interplicosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Prionocyclus germari, 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- Turonian inoceramids and biostratigraphy of the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil: an integrated study of the Votorantim and Nassau quarries7
- A revision of the Turonian members of the ammonite subfamily Collignoniceratinae from the United States Western Interior and Gulf Coast6
Each of the 13 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
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No picture of Prionocyclus germari 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 Prionocyclus germari, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prionocyclus germari 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 itPrionocyclus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss 1845)