Prionotropis caurinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CollignonicerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Prionotropis caurinus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Kaskapau Formation · Smoky Group1
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The named rock units Prionotropis caurinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prionotropis caurinus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Prionotropis caurinus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Arctica1 site
- Arctica murrayensis1 site
- Collignoniceras woollgari1 site
- Corbula nematophora1 site
- Cyrena1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Inoceramus albertensis1 site
- Inoceramus corpulentus1 site
- Lingula subspatulata1 site
- Liopistha (Psilomya) allani1 site
- Mytiloides labiatus1 site
- Opis1 site
- Panope murrayensis1 site
- Panope webbi1 site
- Pholadomya albertensis1 site
- Prionocyclus hyatti1 site
- Scaphites1 site
- Tellina (Linearia) delicatula1 site
- Watinoceras coloradoense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Prionotropis caurinus, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Prionotropis caurinus 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 Prionotropis caurinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prionotropis caurinus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCollignoniceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McLearn 1926