Prosphingites

Prosphingites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProsphingitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 248.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 247 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 19 of 19 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 19 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250.8 Mya248.6 Mya252.4 Mya246.5 Mya

19 occurrences of Prosphingites on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

19 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

5 formations

Pastanakhskaya/Ystannakhskaya — 72.85°N, 120.98°EPastakh — 71.81°N, 127.24°EVikinghogda — 78.58°N, 15.29°EVikinghogda — 78.33°N, 16.48°EGua Musang — 4.92°N, 102.00°EToad — 56.87°N, 123.53°W

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The named rock units Prosphingites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prosphingites and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Prosphingites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Prosphingites, 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

11 references

Each of the 19 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 Prosphingites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Prosphingites 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 itProsphingitidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1886