Protexanites

No picture of Protexanites 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 Protexanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TexanitinaePBDB
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 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 52 of 52 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence89.8 Mya85.7 Mya94.4 Mya83.1 Mya

52 occurrences of Protexanites on record, most of them in the Late 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

52 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

19 formations

Craie de Villedieu — 47.72°N, 0.64°ECraie de Villedieu — 47.72°N, 0.65°ECraie de Villedieu — 47.60°N, 0.49°ENiobrara — 36.28°N, 104.72°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.60°WNiobrara — 38.27°N, 104.61°WMarno-Calcaires à Gauthiericeras — 42.90°N, 2.37°EMarno-Calcaires à Gauthiericeras — 42.88°N, 2.52°EHinoshima — 32.39°N, 130.40°ETexanitid Marls — 42.17°N, 0.90°ECarregador de Carreu — 42.17°N, 0.90°ESant Corneli — 42.17°N, 0.90°EYorimatsu — 33.25°N, 132.75°EColl de Jovell — 42.17°N, 0.90°EAnseroles — 42.25°N, 0.97°EBavnodde Greensand — 55.13°N, 14.75°ELa Luna — 9.80°N, 72.95°WFrontier — 42.83°N, 108.73°WFunks — 38.52°N, 122.08°WMarias River Shale — 47.26°N, 109.68°WAustin Chalk — 32.61°N, 96.84°WCalcaire de Cangey — 47.47°N, 1.06°EMarnes a Micraster — 42.92°N, 2.33°EBaba — 14.26°S, 12.36°E

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The named rock units Protexanites 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.

Protexanites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Protexanites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Protexanites, 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

16 references

Each of the 52 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. 4 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No picture of Protexanites 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 Protexanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itTexanitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matsumoto 1955