Prouddenites primus

Prouddenites primus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProuddenitesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Prolecanitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 5 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306 Mya303.7 Mya313.3 Mya298.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Prouddenites primus 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

5 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

4 formations

Gaptank — 30.17°N, 103.35°WGaptank — 30.17°N, 103.35°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WGraford — 33.22°N, 97.75°WNellie Bly — 36.15°N, 96.25°W

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The named rock units Prouddenites primus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Prouddenites primus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Prouddenites primus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Prouddenites primus, 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

5 references

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. 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 content1

Picture of Prouddenites primus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Prouddenites primus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1930