Prothalassoceras kingorum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProthalassocerasPBDB
- 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 most 4.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Prothalassoceras kingorum 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
3 formations
- Graham Formation · Cisco Group2
- Gaptank Formation1
- Wild Cow Formation · Madera Group1
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The named rock units Prothalassoceras kingorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prothalassoceras kingorum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Prothalassoceras kingorum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Uddenites schucherti3 sites
- Agathiceras ciscoense2 sites
- Agathiceras frechi2 sites
- Neoaganides grahamensis2 sites
- Schistoceras missouriense2 sites
- Ammonidea indet.1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Boesites texanus1 site
- Brachiopoda indet.1 site
- Bryozoa indet.1 site
- Cardiella sulcata1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dunbarites1 site
- Gastrioceras montgomeryense1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glaphyrites millsi1 site
- Gonioloboceras gracellenae1 site
- Hindeodus1 site
- Hystriculina1 site
- Idiognathodus1 site
- Juresania1 site
- Linoproductus1 site
- Nautiloidea indet.1 site
- Neodimorphoceras plummerae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Prothalassoceras kingorum, 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- Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas2
- Late Pennsylvanian cephalopods from the Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico1
- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI1
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. 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 kingorum 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 kingorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prothalassoceras kingorum 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 itProthalassoceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1930