Priscaphander

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CephalaspidaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 29 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 29 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 5 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 29 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66 Mya23.04 Mya73 Mya15 Mya

29 occurrences of Priscaphander on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

29 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

12 formations

Tapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.97°S, 170.58°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 45.01°S, 170.71°EJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WWangaloa — 46.20°S, 169.92°EWangaloa — 46.22°S, 169.98°EKauru — 45.06°S, 170.73°EKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°EKauru — 45.04°S, 170.76°ECerro Dorotea — 51.58°S, 72.33°WCerro Dorotea — 51.54°S, 72.34°WPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°EMonte Leon Fm — 50.23°S, 68.92°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WCerro Cazador — 51.54°S, 72.34°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WChenque — 48.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WLefipán — 42.69°S, 69.84°W

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The named rock units Priscaphander has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Priscaphander and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Priscaphander and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

262 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Priscaphander, 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

7 references

Each of the 29 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 Priscaphander was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Priscaphander, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay & Marwick 1937