Propomatoceros

Propomatoceros

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SerpulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulidae

Time the record covers

At least 138 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous270–265 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences265–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–134 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 4 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences264.28 Mya125.77 Mya270 Mya118 Mya

12 occurrences of Propomatoceros 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

12 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

Agrio — 39.35°S, 70.13°WAgrio — 38.37°S, 70.02°WAgrio — 37.67°S, 70.03°WAgrio — 37.62°S, 70.04°WAgrio — 37.65°S, 70.22°WAgrio — 39.44°S, 70.17°WPodosinkovskaya — 55.20°N, 38.78°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°E

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The named rock units Propomatoceros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Propomatoceros and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Propomatoceros and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

340 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Propomatoceros, 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content1

Picture of Propomatoceros

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSerpulidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ware 1975