Prososthenia

Prososthenia

G.M. Roding · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
PyrgulinaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Hydrobiidae

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 74 of 86 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 86 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 86 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 18 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 18 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 18 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 15 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13.82 Mya3.55 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

86 occurrences of Prososthenia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

86 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

2 formations

facies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°E

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The named rock units Prososthenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 83 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prososthenia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Prososthenia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

215 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Prososthenia, 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 86 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 content1

Picture of Prososthenia

Source
GBIF
Credit
G.M. Roding
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Prososthenia 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 itPyrgulinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neumayr 1869