Prionolepis angustus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrionolepisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Salmoniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Salmoniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Salmoniformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Prionolepis angustus 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
8 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
- Lower Chalk Formation · Chalk Group2
- Zig Zag Chalk Formation · Chalk Group1
- Holleywell, New Pit, Lewes Formation · White Chalk Group1
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The named rock units Prionolepis angustus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Prionolepis angustus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Prionolepis angustus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Apateodus striatus3 sites
- Ctenothrissa radians2 sites
- Dercetis elongatus2 sites
- Elopopsis crassus2 sites
- Enchodus lewesiensis2 sites
- Hoplopteryx lewesiensis2 sites
- Hoplopteryx simus2 sites
- Pachyrhizodus subulidens2 sites
- Xiphactinus daviesi2 sites
- Xiphactinus mantelli2 sites
- ? Neorhombolepis punctatus1 site
- "Aipichthys" nuchalus1 site
- "Coelodus" fimbriatus1 site
- "Lepidotes" pustulatus1 site
- "Pycnodus" scrobiculatus1 site
- Acrognathus boops1 site
- Acrotemnus faba1 site
- Anomoeodus angustus1 site
- Anomoeodus pauciseriale1 site
- Anomoeodus willetti1 site
- Apateodus lanceolatus1 site
- Apsopelix anglicus1 site
- Aulolepis typus1 site
- Belonostomus cinctus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Prionolepis angustus, 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
3 references- The fossil fishes of the English Chalk, Part I4
- The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstatten2
- A synopsis of the vertebrate fossils of the English Chalk2
Each of the 8 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 Prionolepis angustus 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 Prionolepis angustus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prionolepis angustus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPrionolepis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Egerton 1850