Protacanthoceras tuberculatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtacanthocerasPBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Protacanthoceras tuberculatum on record, most of them in the Late 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
3 occurrences- Late 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 Protacanthoceras tuberculatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protacanthoceras tuberculatum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Protacanthoceras tuberculatum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) asiaticum1 site
- Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) planecostatum1 site
- Protacanthoceras involutum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protacanthoceras tuberculatum, 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- Middle Cenomanian ammonites from the type section of the Sanandinovo Formation of northern Bulgaria2
- Biochronologie quantitative (associations unitaires) des faunes d'ammonites du Cenomanien du Sud-Est de la France1
Each 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
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No picture of Protacanthoceras tuberculatum 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 Protacanthoceras tuberculatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protacanthoceras tuberculatum 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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What may have been alongside itProtacanthoceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomel 1972