Prolobites delphinus
No picture of Prolobites delphinus 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 Prolobites delphinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProlobitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 365.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Prolobites delphinus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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.
Prolobites delphinus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Prolobites delphinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Polonoceras5 sites
- Prolobites ellipticus5 sites
- Sporadoceras muensteri5 sites
- Sporadoceras4 sites
- Prolobites auriformis3 sites
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras)2 sites
- Cyrtoclymenia2 sites
- Dimeroceras2 sites
- Dimeroceras padbergense2 sites
- Lobotornoceras2 sites
- Prolobites aktubensis2 sites
- Prolobites nanus2 sites
- Protornoceras2 sites
- Pseudoclymenia dillensis2 sites
- Renites striatus2 sites
- Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) biferum2 sites
- Cheiloceras1 site
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum1 site
- Dimeroceras mamilliferum1 site
- Falciclymenia1 site
- Genuclymenia1 site
- Hexaclymenia hexagona1 site
- Lagowites1 site
- Nehdenites verneuilii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Prolobites delphinus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Prolobites delphinus 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 Prolobites delphinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prolobites delphinus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProlobites through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sandberger and Sandberger 1856)