Prismatoolithus levis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrismatoolithusPBDB
- 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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Prismatoolithus levis 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
9 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
- Oldman Formation · Belly River Group6
- Two Medicine Formation · Montana Group2
- Horseshoe Canyon Formation · Edmonton Group1
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The named rock units Prismatoolithus levis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prismatoolithus levis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Prismatoolithus levis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Continuoolithus canadensis4 sites
- Troodon formosus3 sites
- Hypacrosaurus stebingeri2 sites
- Orodromeus makelai2 sites
- Porituberoolithus warnerensis2 sites
- Saurornitholestes langstoni2 sites
- Tristraguloolithus cracioides2 sites
- Acipenseridae1 site
- Albertavenator curriei1 site
- Albertosaurus sarcophagus1 site
- Alphadon halleyi1 site
- Anodontosaurus lambei1 site
- Anura1 site
- Atrociraptor marshalli1 site
- Ceratopsidae1 site
- Chelydridae1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Dispersituberoolithus exilis1 site
- Dromaeosauridae1 site
- Dromaeosaurus albertensis1 site
- Filikomys primaevus1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Insecta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Prismatoolithus levis, 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- An egg clutch of Prismatooiitlbus levis oosp. nov. from the Oldman Formation (Upper Cretaceous) Devil's Coulee, southern Alberta6
- Dinosaur eggs from Asia and North America2
- The first record of dinosaur eggshell from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Maastrichtian) of Alberta, Canada1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Prismatoolithus levis 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 Prismatoolithus levis, 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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What may have been alongside itPrismatoolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zelenitsky and Hills 1996