Proscinetes

Proscinetes is an extinct genus of prehistoric pycnodontiform ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.

Proscinetes

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnodontidaePBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 9 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous160–158 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–149 Mya — about 3 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157.9 Mya100.5 Mya160 Mya93 Mya

12 occurrences of Proscinetes on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

12 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

4 formations

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.94°N, 8.41°ESainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°ECabaços — 39.91°N, 8.95°WSannine — 34.06°N, 35.69°E

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The named rock units Proscinetes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proscinetes and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Proscinetes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

306 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Proscinetes, 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content2

Picture of Proscinetes

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Synchrotron Imaging scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Proscinetes elegans · nhmuk:pal:PV P 1626

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPycnodontidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.