Protanisoceras acteon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtanisocerasPBDB
- 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 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 110.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Protanisoceras acteon 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
5 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
1 formation
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group4
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The named rock units Protanisoceras acteon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protanisoceras acteon and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Protanisoceras acteon and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Cleoniceras5 sites
- Sonneratia5 sites
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum4 sites
- Cleoniceras (Neosaynella) inornatum3 sites
- Douvilleiceras inaequinodum3 sites
- Entolium orbiculare3 sites
- Hamites praegibbosus3 sites
- Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni3 sites
- Otohoplites raulinianus3 sites
- Protohoplites3 sites
- Roberticeras dupinianum3 sites
- Roberticeras newtoni3 sites
- Anchura2 sites
- Beudanticeras2 sites
- Cleoniceras cleon2 sites
- Cucullaea glabra2 sites
- Douvilleiceras2 sites
- Exogyra2 sites
- Gyrodes2 sites
- Neithea quinquecostata2 sites
- Otohoplites2 sites
- Protanisoceras blancheti2 sites
- Pseudosonneratia2 sites
- Semisolarium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Protanisoceras acteon, 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 5 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 Protanisoceras acteon 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 Protanisoceras acteon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protanisoceras acteon 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 itProtanisoceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)