Prospondylus acinetus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProspondylusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 34 occurrencesPermian — about 34 of 34 occurrencesPermian300–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 2 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 3 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 3 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 3 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 3 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences293.52 Mya266.9 Mya299.6 Mya263.6 Mya

34 occurrences of Prospondylus acinetus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

34 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

6 formations

Road Canyon — 30.38°N, 103.16°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.27°WWord — 30.39°N, 103.18°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.29°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.16°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WHess — 30.36°N, 103.16°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°W

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

Prospondylus acinetus and its relatives

Permian

Where Prospondylus acinetus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

798 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Prospondylus acinetus, 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 reference

Each of the 34 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

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No picture of Prospondylus acinetus 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 Prospondylus acinetus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Prospondylus acinetus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newell and Boyd 1970