Prothalassoceras

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 47 of 79 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 32 of 79 occurrencesPermian308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 6 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 11 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 11 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 11 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 9 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 4 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 4 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 4 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 4 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 3 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 2 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 2 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–287 Mya — about 1 occurrence287–286 Mya — about 1 occurrence286–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–284 Mya — about 1 occurrence284–283 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303.7 Mya283.3 Mya307.7 Mya273.7 Mya

79 occurrences of Prothalassoceras on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

79 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

Graham — 33.18°N, 98.11°WGraham — 32.72°N, 98.64°WGraham — 31.80°N, 99.10°WLenox Hills — 30.25°N, 103.35°WLenox Hills — 30.21°N, 103.40°WBazardarian — 38.02°N, 74.21°ENeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WHueco — 32.41°N, 105.92°WJungle Creek — 65.87°N, 136.18°WKochusu — 37.62°N, 74.86°EKochusu — 37.94°N, 74.33°EWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WGaptank — 30.17°N, 103.35°WGreat Bear Cape — 77.61°N, 86.38°WChelamchin — 38.65°N, 70.60°ENandan — 25.28°N, 106.39°E

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The named rock units Prothalassoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prothalassoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Prothalassoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

405 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Prothalassoceras, 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 79 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

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

No 3D scan of Prothalassoceras was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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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What may have been alongside itThalassoceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Böse 1919