Prinsius dimorphosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrinsiusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
- Life habit
- planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Environment
- oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Prinsius dimorphosus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Prinsius dimorphosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prinsius dimorphosus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Prinsius dimorphosus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Chiasmolithus danicus3 sites
- Coccolithus pelagicus3 sites
- Cervisiella operculata2 sites
- Cruciplacolithus primus2 sites
- Hornibrookina teuriensis2 sites
- Markalius inversus2 sites
- Palaeoperidinium pyrophorum2 sites
- Placozygus sigmoides2 sites
- Praeprinsius dimorphosus2 sites
- Prinsius martinii2 sites
- Reticulofenestra bisecta filewiczii2 sites
- Reticulofenestra dictyoda2 sites
- Reticulofenestra minuta2 sites
- Senoniasphaera inornata2 sites
- Sullivania danica2 sites
- Toweius occultatus2 sites
- Albertipollenites anguloluminosus1 site
- Biscutum1 site
- Biscutum melaniae1 site
- Ceratosporites equalis1 site
- Cerodinium1 site
- Cerodinium verruscosum1 site
- Cervisiella saxea1 site
- Chiasmolithus consuetus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Prinsius dimorphosus, 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
4 references- Late Maastrichtian to Danian organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts and calcareous nannofossils from eastern Austral Basin, Patagonia, Argentina2
- Primera ingresión atlántica en Peninsula de Valdés: Bioestratigrafía, paleoambiente y paleoclima del Daniano1
- Two new finds of turtle remains from the Danian and Selandian (Paleocene) deposits of Denmark with evidence of predation by crocodilians and sharks1
- New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Río Chico Group in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction recovery and land mammal age correlations1
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
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No picture of Prinsius dimorphosus 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 Prinsius dimorphosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prinsius dimorphosus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPrinsius through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perch-Nielsen 1977