Prolobites auriformis
No picture of Prolobites auriformis 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 Prolobites auriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProlobitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 368.5 Mya and 365.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Prolobites auriformis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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.
Prolobites auriformis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Prolobites auriformis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Prolobites delphinus3 sites
- Prolobites ellipticus3 sites
- Lobotornoceras2 sites
- Polonoceras2 sites
- Prolobites aktubensis2 sites
- Renites striatus2 sites
- Sporadoceras2 sites
- Sporadoceras muensteri2 sites
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras)1 site
- Cyrtoclymenia1 site
- Dimeroceras1 site
- Dimeroceras padbergense1 site
- Falciclymenia1 site
- Genuclymenia1 site
- Hexaclymenia hexagona1 site
- Lagowites1 site
- Platyclymenia1 site
- Posttornoceras contiguum1 site
- Praeglyphioceras1 site
- Prionoceras divisum1 site
- Prionoceras frechi1 site
- Prolobites nanus1 site
- Protornoceras1 site
- Pseudoclymenia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Prolobites auriformis, 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 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Prolobites auriformis 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 Prolobites auriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prolobites auriformis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProlobites through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bogoslovsky 1969