Protetragonites tauricus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtetragonitesPBDB
- 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 most 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Protetragonites tauricus 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
5 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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.
Protetragonites tauricus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Protetragonites tauricus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Haploceras elimatum2 sites
- Ampullospira1 site
- Antiquilima1 site
- Belbekella minor1 site
- Belbekella mutabilis1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Dalmasiceras crassicostatum1 site
- Duvalia lata1 site
- Euthymiceras euthymi1 site
- Gervillaria1 site
- Gervillella1 site
- Holcostephanus (Spiticeras) obliquelobatus1 site
- Hypolissoceras carachtheis1 site
- Jaccardiella1 site
- Lytoceras liebigi1 site
- Macrophylloceras ptychostoma1 site
- Malbosiceras1 site
- Neocosmoceras1 site
- Protocardia1 site
- Psilothyris airgulensis1 site
- Ptychophylloceras ptychoicum1 site
- Pygurus1 site
- Scurria1 site
- Sphaera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protetragonites tauricus, 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
3 references- Genus Delphinella (Ammonoidea) from the Berriasian of the Crimean Mountains2
- Early Cretaceous Trigonids of the Crimea2
- Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Protetragonites tauricus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Protetragonites tauricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protetragonites tauricus 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 itProtetragonites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kuljinskaia-Voronetz 1933)