Probillingsites welleri
No picture of Probillingsites welleri 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 Probillingsites welleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProbillingsitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Ascocerida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Probillingsites welleri 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
15 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
6 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group8
- Dubuque Formation · Galena Group2
- Wise Lake Formation · Galena Group2
- Cummingsville Formation1
- Prosser Limestone Formation1
- Stewartville Formation1
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The named rock units Probillingsites welleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Probillingsites welleri and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Probillingsites welleri and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Whitfieldoceras15 sites
- Centrocyrtoceras14 sites
- Manitoulinoceras14 sites
- Kionoceras decorahense13 sites
- Westonoceras12 sites
- Isorthoceras junceum11 sites
- Michelinoceras11 sites
- Orthoceras11 sites
- Cyrtocerina10 sites
- Cameroceras9 sites
- Diestoceras9 sites
- Teichertoceras9 sites
- Tripteroceras9 sites
- Metaspyroceras8 sites
- Polygrammoceras7 sites
- Endoceras6 sites
- Oncoceras6 sites
- Ephippiorthoceras4 sites
- Actinoceras3 sites
- Lambeoceras3 sites
- Whiteavesites3 sites
- Armenoceras2 sites
- Onoceras douglassi2 sites
- Ormoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Probillingsites welleri, 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
1 reference- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area15
Each of the 15 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
Media content0
No picture of Probillingsites welleri 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 Probillingsites welleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Probillingsites welleri 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 itProbillingsites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1928