Protanisoceras

Protanisoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnisoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 68 of 69 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 69 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 9 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 11 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 11 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 7 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 4 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 4 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 3 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya100.5 Mya122 Mya93.3 Mya

69 occurrences of Protanisoceras on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

69 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

12 formations

Folkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.08°EFolkestone — 51.32°N, 0.32°EFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.71°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.10°N, 6.82°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.01°N, 6.35°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.78°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.05°N, 6.52°EAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.15°N, 5.48°EBargy Conglomerate — 46.00°N, 6.10°ECouches du Freu — 46.88°N, 6.26°EMakatini — 27.53°S, 32.17°EMzinene — 27.97°S, 32.31°ECrisnejas — 6.87°S, 78.15°WChulec — 9.37°S, 77.58°WSchrattenkalk — 47.33°N, 9.54°ECuio — 12.92°S, 13.07°E

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The named rock units Protanisoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protanisoceras and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Protanisoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

436 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Protanisoceras, 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

13 references

Each of the 69 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. 1 further reference is 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

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Picture of Protanisoceras

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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Protanisoceras 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 itAnisoceratidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.