Priscoficus intermedia

Priscoficus intermedia

Plateau · 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
PriscoficusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ficidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ficidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ficidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya11.63 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

3 occurrences of Priscoficus intermedia on record. 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

3 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

2 formations

Shimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.72°EOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°E

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The named rock units Priscoficus intermedia 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.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Priscoficus intermedia, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 Priscoficus intermedia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Plateau
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Priscoficus intermedia 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 itPriscoficus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Melleville 1843)