Prodentalium

Prodentalium is a genus of fossil scaphopod assigned to the Dentalids, but on somewhat dubious grounds.

Prodentalium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProdentaliidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Dentaliida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Dentaliida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Dentaliida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 141 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 313.8 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 21 of 142 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 93 of 142 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 142 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 142 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 142 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 23 of 142 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 142 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 142 occurrences317–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–306 Mya — about 5 occurrences306–301 Mya — about 9 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 6 occurrences296–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–285 Mya — about 5 occurrences285–280 Mya — about 20 occurrences280–275 Mya — about 29 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 7 occurrences269–264 Mya — about 11 occurrences264–259 Mya — about 8 occurrences259–253 Mya — about 11 occurrences253–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–190 Mya — about 7 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 14 occurrences185–180 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–164 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences164–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence307 Mya165.3 Mya317 Mya158 Mya

142 occurrences of Prodentalium on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

142 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

34 formations

Loray — 39.01°N, 114.88°WLoray — 39.20°N, 114.98°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.32°WLoray — 39.48°N, 115.12°WPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPark City — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPark City — 43.19°N, 109.16°WPark City — 44.51°N, 109.14°WPark City — 43.54°N, 108.70°WKalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°EAkasaka — 35.40°N, 136.58°EPhosphoria — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPhosphoria — 42.32°N, 111.24°WPhosphoria — 42.67°N, 108.68°WPhosphoria — 44.51°N, 109.14°WPhosphoria — 43.54°N, 108.70°WPhosphoria — 43.19°N, 109.16°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WPequop — 40.23°N, 115.16°WAntimonio — 30.77°N, 112.57°WSupai — 33.99°N, 110.35°WSupai — 33.83°N, 109.86°WSupai — 33.93°N, 110.19°WSupai — 33.94°N, 110.11°WLaborcita — 33.08°N, 105.99°WLaborcita — 32.99°N, 105.92°WQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WBlaine — 34.35°N, 99.75°WBlaine — 34.19°N, 99.85°WLost Branch — 35.94°N, 96.00°WLost Branch — 35.12°N, 96.43°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WPounawea — 46.45°S, 169.55°EPounawea — 46.45°S, 169.70°EDog Creek — 33.37°N, 100.35°WDog Creek — 34.37°N, 100.02°WMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°WArcturus — 39.38°N, 113.71°WMingus — 32.71°N, 98.08°WPalo Pinto — 33.18°N, 97.75°WLazy Bend — 32.63°N, 98.33°WGrindstone Creek — 32.71°N, 98.08°WShedhorn — 47.06°N, 109.43°W

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The named rock units Prodentalium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prodentalium and its relatives

Permian

Where Prodentalium and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,086 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 137 sites for Prodentalium, 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

37 references

Each of the 142 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. 25 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 content1

Picture of Prodentalium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Prodentalium 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Young 1942