Megapronorites baconi

Miser, H. D. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegapronoritesPBDB
- 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 most 3.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 326.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Megapronorites baconi 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
1 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Megapronorites baconi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megapronorites baconi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Megapronorites baconi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Eumorphoceras milleri1 site
- Fayettevillea planorbis1 site
- Glaphyrites fayettevillae1 site
- Hematites barbarae1 site
- Mitorthoceras crebriliratum1 site
- Muensteroceras pisiforme1 site
- Paleoconus bakeri1 site
- Paracravenoceras ozarkense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Megapronorites baconi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Megapronorites baconi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Miser, H. D.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Megapronorites baconi 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 itMegapronorites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller et al. 1952)