Prolecanites

No picture of Prolecanites 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 Prolecanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProlecanitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Prolecanitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 56 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 55 of 56 occurrencesCarboniferous366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 3 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 3 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 3 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 3 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 2 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 2 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 2 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 2 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 6 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 6 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 5 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 2 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 2 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 3 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 4 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 4 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358.86 Mya330.3 Mya366 Mya322.6 Mya

56 occurrences of Prolecanites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

56 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

17 formations

Družetić — 44.42°N, 19.81°EDavis Spring — 39.22°N, 116.27°WHamou-Rhanem — 31.07°N, 3.63°WHamou-Rhanem — 31.07°N, 3.69°WRangari limestone — 30.87°S, 150.50°ERangari limestone — 30.76°S, 150.36°ERangari limestone — 30.75°S, 150.36°EChainman Shale — 40.49°N, 116.02°WZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.70°WZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.64°WBorden — 38.53°N, 83.48°WRockford Limestone — 38.88°N, 86.04°WBingleburra — 32.43°S, 151.57°EBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WLodgepole Limestone — 41.68°N, 111.06°WJoanna Limestone — 39.27°N, 115.84°WMcGowan Creek — 43.59°N, 113.90°WNamoi — 30.58°S, 150.60°EWalls Ferry — 35.83°N, 91.86°WKulmschiefer — 43.78°N, 18.75°E

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The named rock units Prolecanites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prolecanites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Prolecanites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

328 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Prolecanites, 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

17 references

Each of the 56 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. 5 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

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No picture of Prolecanites 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 Prolecanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Prolecanites 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 itProlecanitidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mojsisovics 1882)