Prohalecites porroi

Prohalecites porroi

Uncredited · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
ProhalecitesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 2.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 239.48 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239.98 Mya236.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Prohalecites porroi on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

4 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

3 formations

Meride — 45.89°N, 8.95°EMeride — 45.88°N, 8.90°EPerledo-Varenna — 46.02°N, 9.30°E

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The named rock units Prohalecites porroi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Prohalecites porroi and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Prohalecites porroi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Prohalecites porroi, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 content2

Picture of Prohalecites porroi

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Prohalecites porroi · nhmuk:pal:PV P 19471

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 itProhalecites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bellotti 1857)