Prismatoolithus matellensis
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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 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Prismatoolithus matellensis 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
2 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
1 formation
- Figuerola Formation · Fontllonga Group1
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The named rock units Prismatoolithus matellensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Prismatoolithus matellensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Prismatoolithus matellensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Megaloolithus aureliensis2 sites
- Megaloolithus petralta2 sites
- Prismatoolithus tenuis2 sites
- Ageroolithus fontllongensis1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Anura1 site
- Atractosteus1 site
- Cairanoolithus roussetensis1 site
- Charophyta1 site
- Chondrostei1 site
- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Dromaeosauridae1 site
- Igdabatis indicus1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Phyllodontidae1 site
- Potamididae1 site
- Prismatoolithus trempii1 site
- Pseudogeckoolithus nodosus1 site
- Pycnodontiformes1 site
- Rhombodus ibericus1 site
- Semionotiformes1 site
- Septorella1 site
- Testudines1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Prismatoolithus matellensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from the Tremp basin, southern Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain1
- Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France)1
Each of the 2 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 Prismatoolithus matellensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 matellensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prismatoolithus matellensis 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 itPrismatoolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994