Prionolobus ophioneus
No picture of Prionolobus ophioneus 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 Prionolobus ophioneus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrionolobusPBDB
- 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 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.1 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Prionolobus ophioneus on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
2 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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 Prionolobus ophioneus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Prionolobus ophioneus and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Prionolobus ophioneus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Ambites atavus1 site
- Aspenites acutus1 site
- Dieneroceras1 site
- Hebeisenites varians1 site
- Juvenites sinuosus1 site
- Koninckites1 site
- Lingyunites discoides1 site
- Meekoceras1 site
- Mesohedenstroemia planata1 site
- Paranannites1 site
- Paranorites1 site
- Proptychites oldhamianus1 site
- Pseudaspenites layeriformis1 site
- Pseudaspenites tenuis1 site
- Pseudaspidites muthianus1 site
- Subinyoites kashmiricus1 site
- Vishnuites pralambha1 site
- Xenodiscoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Prionolobus ophioneus, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Prionolobus ophioneus 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 Prionolobus ophioneus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prionolobus ophioneus 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 itPrionolobus through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1895