Prospondylus crassus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProspondylusPBDB
- 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 9.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 237 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 205.7 Mya.
4 occurrences of Prospondylus crassus on record, most of them in the Late 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
- Cassian Formation · Wegen Group2
- Cephalopod Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Prospondylus crassus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Prospondylus crassus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Prospondylus crassus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
239 taxa- Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) zitteli2 sites
- Cassianocrinus tetarakontadactylus2 sites
- Chelocrinus cassianus2 sites
- Cidaris2 sites
- Coelopis (Cryptocoelopis) affinis2 sites
- Coelostylina conica2 sites
- Isocrinus propinquus2 sites
- Myoconcha parvula2 sites
- Myophoria kefersteini2 sites
- Myophoriopis richthofeni2 sites
- Mysidioptera2 sites
- Neritaria plicatilis2 sites
- Nucula strigilata2 sites
- Pachycardia rugosa2 sites
- Palaeoneilo elliptica2 sites
- Trigonodus costatus2 sites
- Trigonodus rablensis2 sites
- Zardinicrinus granulosus2 sites
- Amphijanira landrana1 site
- Anisactinella quadriplecta1 site
- Anticonulus1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca tirolensis1 site
- Arcoptera ampla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Prospondylus crassus, 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
4 references- Triassic conodonts and stratigraphy of Sikhote-Alin1
- Das Grödener-, Fassa- und Enneberggebiet in den Südtiroler Dolomiten: Geologische Beschreibung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Überschiebungserscheinungen. Teil III. Paläontologie1
- Die Brachiopoden, Lamellibranchiaten und Gastropoden der Trias von Timor I1
- Die Fauna Pachycardientuffe der Seiser Alp (mit Ausschluss der Gastropoden und Cephalopoden)1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Prospondylus crassus 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 Prospondylus crassus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prospondylus crassus 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 itProspondylus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broili 1904