Prisconatica

Prisconatica

Preslicka, James · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.4 Mya83.6 Mya127 Mya71 Mya

5 occurrences of Prisconatica on record, most of them in the Early 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

5 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

4 formations

Encino — 19.80°N, 103.27°WBarranquín — 8.96°N, 63.55°WWilliams — 33.83°N, 117.66°WHaslam — 49.20°N, 124.10°W

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

Prisconatica and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Prisconatica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Prisconatica, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Prisconatica

Source
GBIF
Credit
Preslicka, James
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Prisconatica 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 itCaenogastropoda through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1877