Prismatoolithus

No picture of Prismatoolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Prismatoolithus itself, so it was not used. 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 Prismatoolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrismatoolithidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 7 of 65 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 65 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 54 of 65 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 65 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 6 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 6 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 6 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 10 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 13 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 5 occurrences152.21 Mya72.2 Mya157 Mya64 Mya

65 occurrences of Prismatoolithus 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

65 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

24 formations

Conques — 42.14°N, 0.98°EConques — 42.12°N, 1.05°WConques — 42.25°N, 0.74°EConques — 42.16°N, 1.01°EConques — 42.15°N, 1.01°WConques — 42.09°N, 0.69°EMorrison — 38.53°N, 105.22°WMorrison — 39.32°N, 110.69°WMorrison — 38.81°N, 108.32°WMorrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 38.32°N, 108.83°WOldman — 49.28°N, 112.20°WOldman — 49.28°N, 112.58°WTwo Medicine — 47.81°N, 112.18°WTwo Medicine — 47.82°N, 112.66°WTwo Medicine — 47.71°N, 112.22°WChichengshan — 29.16°N, 121.00°EChichengshan — 29.14°N, 121.03°EFiguerola — 41.12°N, 1.01°ENorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.31°WNorth Horn — 38.94°N, 110.40°WOhyamashimo — 35.08°N, 135.11°EGrès à Reptiles — 43.35°N, 2.95°EPingling — 24.30°N, 115.36°EDjadokhta — 41.74°N, 106.75°ECerro del Pueblo — 25.67°N, 101.30°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.46°WDongyuan — 23.71°N, 114.70°EFruitland — 36.29°N, 108.55°WSaint-Chinian — 43.35°N, 2.95°EMajiacun — 33.21°N, 111.76°EWulansuhai — 39.22°N, 101.67°EIrbzer — 33.13°N, 4.75°WBlesa — 40.95°N, 0.77°WIlek — 55.88°N, 88.00°EHorseshoe Canyon — 51.67°N, 112.91°WEl Gallo — 30.06°N, 115.77°WDjadokhta — 43.66°N, 100.90°E

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The named rock units Prismatoolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prismatoolithus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Prismatoolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

297 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Prismatoolithus, 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

34 references

Each of the 65 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. 22 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Prismatoolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Prismatoolithus itself, so it was not used.

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 Prismatoolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Prismatoolithus 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 itPrismatoolithidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhao and Li 1993