Prisochiton
No picture of Prisochiton 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 Prisochiton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolyplacophoraPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Prisochiton on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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 Prisochiton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prisochiton and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Prisochiton and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Catenipora1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Daidia cerithioides1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hormotoma1 site
- Paraliospira mundula1 site
- Paupospira burginensis1 site
- Straparollina circe1 site
- Straparollina eurydice1 site
- Trochonema1 site
- Trochonemella reusingi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Prisochiton, 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
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No picture of Prisochiton 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 Prisochiton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prisochiton 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 itPolyplacophora through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1881