Prolyelliceras mathewsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProlyellicerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Prolyelliceras mathewsi on record, most of them in the Early 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
2 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Prolyelliceras mathewsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prolyelliceras mathewsi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Prolyelliceras mathewsi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Oxytropidoceras2 sites
- Prolyelliceras ulrichi2 sites
- Arca1 site
- Brancoceras1 site
- Epitonium1 site
- Eubrancoceras aegoceratoides1 site
- Exogyra africana1 site
- Glottoceras attenuatum1 site
- Glottoceras crassicostatum1 site
- Glottoceras crassinodosum1 site
- Glottoceras moorei1 site
- Glottoceras semicostatum1 site
- Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) concentricus1 site
- Knemiceras1 site
- Liopistha1 site
- Nucula1 site
- Paphia1 site
- Pholadomya1 site
- Plicatula1 site
- Protocardia1 site
- Protocardia hillana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Prolyelliceras mathewsi, 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
2 references- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Lyelliceratinae Spath, 19211
- Geological reconnaissance of the Contamana region, Peru1
Each of the 2 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prolyelliceras mathewsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prolyelliceras mathewsi was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itProlyelliceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Knechtel 1947)