Protosphyraena ferox

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtosphyraenaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pachycormidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pachycormiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pachycormiformes

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 7 occurrencesLate Cretaceous107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100.5 Mya85.7 Mya106.8 Mya83.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Protosphyraena ferox 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

7 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

5 formations

West Melbury Marly Chalk — 52.04°N, 0.15°WScaglia Variegata Alpina — 45.28°N, 11.65°EHolleywell, New Pit, Lewes — 51.30°N, 0.39°EPolpino — 51.97°N, 35.95°EJizera — 49.96°N, 16.06°E

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The named rock units Protosphyraena ferox has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protosphyraena ferox and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Protosphyraena ferox and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Protosphyraena ferox, 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

Each of the 7 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 Protosphyraena ferox 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 Protosphyraena ferox, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protosphyraena ferox 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 itProtosphyraena through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1857