Prognathodon kianda
No picture of Prognathodon kianda was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Prognathodon kianda itself, so it was not used. 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 Prognathodon kianda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrognathodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Prognathodon kianda 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
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The named rock units Prognathodon kianda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prognathodon kianda and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Prognathodon kianda and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Calcarichelys1 site
- Carinodens belgicus1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Elasmosauridae1 site
- Epapatelo otyikokolo1 site
- Euclastes1 site
- Globidens phosphaticus1 site
- Hadrosauroidea1 site
- Halisaurus1 site
- Mollusca1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Phosphorosaurus1 site
- Plioplatecarpinae1 site
- Protostega1 site
- Pteranodontia1 site
- Pterodactyloidea1 site
- Pterosauria1 site
- Squalicorax pristodontus1 site
- Toxochelys1 site
- Tuarangisaurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Prognathodon kianda, 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 Prognathodon kianda was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Prognathodon kianda itself, so it was not used.
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 Prognathodon kianda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prognathodon kianda 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 itPrognathodon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schulp et al. 2008