Profragum praecurrens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProfragumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
3 occurrences of Profragum praecurrens 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
3 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
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The named rock units Profragum praecurrens 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.
Profragum praecurrens and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Profragum praecurrens and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Mesocallista (Mesocallista) analoga3 sites
- Anthonya2 sites
- Atreta2 sites
- Atreta redunca2 sites
- Caryocorbula minima2 sites
- Fimbria2 sites
- Goodallia australindica2 sites
- Grammatodon (Nanonavis) subcrenulatus2 sites
- Hiatella tenella2 sites
- Leionucula albensis2 sites
- Limatula persimilis2 sites
- Limopsis coemansi2 sites
- Linearis2 sites
- Mesocallista (Mesocallista) vagrans2 sites
- Mesomiltha2 sites
- Neithea (Neithea) pseudobellula2 sites
- Neithea quinquecostata2 sites
- Nemodon (Nemodon) filistriata2 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) bidorsata2 sites
- Nuculana (Nuculana) arenicola2 sites
- Paramyrtea sabulosa2 sites
- Plicatula (Darteplicatula) sessilis2 sites
- Pratulum scrobiculatum2 sites
- Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Profragum praecurrens, 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
2 references- Middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian) bivalves from the Karai Formation, Uttattur Group, of the Cauvery Basin, south India2
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
Each of the 3 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 Profragum praecurrens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Profragum praecurrens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Profragum praecurrens was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itProfragum through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stoliczka 1870)