Protodictyoolithus neixiangensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtodictyoolithusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Protodictyoolithus neixiangensis 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
5 occurrences- Late 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.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Protodictyoolithus neixiangensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protodictyoolithus neixiangensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Protodictyoolithus neixiangensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Faveoloolithus1 site
- Paraspheroolithus1 site
- Spheroolithus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Protodictyoolithus neixiangensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Dinosaur eggs from the Cretaceous Goseong Formation of Tongyeong City, southern coast of Korea4
- In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protodictyoolithus neixiangensis 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 Protodictyoolithus neixiangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protodictyoolithus neixiangensis 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 itProtodictyoolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zhao 1994)