Prospondylus

Prospondylus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudomonotidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 154 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 139.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 64 occurrencesPermian — about 45 of 64 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 64 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 12 of 64 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 64 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 64 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 64 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 64 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 64 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences297–291 Mya — about 3 occurrences291–285 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences285–280 Mya — about 6 occurrences280–274 Mya — about 10 occurrences274–268 Mya — about 12 occurrences268–263 Mya — about 9 occurrences263–257 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences257–252 Mya — about 2 occurrences252–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–240 Mya — about 5 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 7 occurrences235–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–224 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences218–212 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences212–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence293.52 Mya139.1 Mya302 Mya134 Mya

64 occurrences of Prospondylus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

64 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

22 formations

Road Canyon — 30.38°N, 103.16°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.27°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.29°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.16°WWord — 30.39°N, 103.18°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°EH. S. Lee — 4.28°N, 101.10°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.07°ETrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°EHess — 30.36°N, 103.16°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WWetterstein — 48.50°N, 17.33°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°ESenja — 28.68°N, 84.06°EWetterstein — 48.47°N, 20.53°EGorno — 45.87°N, 9.87°Ebrachiopod-limestone — 45.70°N, 11.22°EWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°EZechstein — 50.67°N, 11.55°EPechishchi — 55.78°N, 48.93°EVerkhnii Uslon — 55.79°N, 48.96°EFelsőörs — 47.24°N, 18.28°ECephalopod Limestone — 9.83°S, 124.57°E

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The named rock units Prospondylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prospondylus and its relatives

Permian

Where Prospondylus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Prospondylus, 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

20 references

Each of the 64 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. 8 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

Media content1

Picture of Prospondylus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Prospondylus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zimmerman 1886)