Prototoceras

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AraxoceratinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 57 of 57 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 57 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 3 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 3 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 3 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 3 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 3 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 3 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 3 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 3 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 3 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 3 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 3 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 3 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260.4 Mya251.4 Mya

57 occurrences of Prototoceras on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

57 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

10 formations

Loping — 27.40°N, 114.60°ELoping — 27.50°N, 114.50°ELoping — 28.20°N, 115.77°ELoping — 27.91°N, 114.45°ELoping — 27.40°N, 114.70°ELoping — 28.40°N, 115.35°ELoping — 28.10°N, 115.78°ELoping — 28.10°N, 115.35°EAkhura — 39.56°N, 45.21°EAkhura — 38.98°N, 45.53°EAkhura — 39.45°N, 45.23°EHambast — 30.91°N, 53.22°EHambast — 31.56°N, 52.44°EHeshan — 23.69°N, 109.32°ELongtan — 30.16°N, 115.14°ELongtan — 27.25°N, 111.75°ELongtan — 27.82°N, 111.91°EWujiaping — 30.30°N, 109.50°EWujiaping — 30.92°N, 118.33°EHuai Tak — 18.70°N, 99.89°EAkhura — 39.95°N, 44.88°EJulfa — 38.94°N, 45.51°EJulfa — 38.97°N, 45.53°E

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The named rock units Prototoceras 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.

Prototoceras and its relatives

Permian

Where Prototoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

267 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Prototoceras, 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 57 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Prototoceras 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 itAraxoceratinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1930