Protoprioniodus
Protoprioniodus is an extinct genus of conodonts.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacordylodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At least 7.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 469.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
27 occurrences of Protoprioniodus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
27 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
7 formations
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group16
- San Juan Formation4
- Zitai Formation3
- Honghuayuan Formation1
- Fengxiang Formation1
- Ospika Formation · Road River Group1
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The named rock units Protoprioniodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protoprioniodus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Protoprioniodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Paroistodus originalis22 sites
- Protopanderodus robustus17 sites
- Periodon15 sites
- Drepanodus14 sites
- Oistodus13 sites
- Protopanderodus13 sites
- Costiconus costatus12 sites
- Drepanoistodus11 sites
- Parapanderodus11 sites
- Eucharodus9 sites
- Cornuodus longibasis8 sites
- Pteracontiodus8 sites
- Spinodus8 sites
- Parapanderodus gracilis7 sites
- Baltoniodus6 sites
- Diaphorodus delicatus6 sites
- Drepanoistodus basiovalis6 sites
- Gothodus6 sites
- Acodus similaris5 sites
- Ansella5 sites
- Paltodus5 sites
- Periodon hankensis5 sites
- Protopanderodus calceatus5 sites
- Ansella jemtlandica4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Protoprioniodus, 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
6 references- Middle Ordovician (late Dapingian–Darriwilian) conodonts from the Cow Head Group and Lower Head Formation, western Newfoundland, Canada16
- Conodont biostratigraphy and global correlation of the middle Darriwilian-lower Sandbian (Ordovician) Las Aguaditas Formation, Precordillera of San Juan, Argentina4
- Biodiversification of Early to Middle Ordovician conodonts: a case study from the Zitai Formation of Anhui Province, eastern China3
- Biostratigraphy of the Yangtze Gorge Area. Part (2) Early Paleozoic Era2
- Conodonts from a platform-to-basin transect, Lower Ordovician to Lower Silurian, northeastern British Columbia, Canada1
- Posicion estratigrafica de los arrecifes Arenigianos en la Precordillera Argentina1
Each of the 27 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
Media content0
No picture of Protoprioniodus 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 Protoprioniodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protoprioniodus 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParacordylodontidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McTavish 1973