Protanisoceras blancheti
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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 least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
11 occurrences of Protanisoceras blancheti 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
11 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
5 formations
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group2
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation2
- Crisnejas Formation1
- Chulec Formation1
- Perte-du-Rhone Formation1
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The named rock units Protanisoceras blancheti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protanisoceras blancheti and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Protanisoceras blancheti and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
251 taxa- Douvilleiceras5 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Avellana3 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum3 sites
- Douvilleiceras inaequinodum3 sites
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum3 sites
- Eutrephoceras clementinum3 sites
- Gyrodes3 sites
- Hamites3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Roberticeras newtoni3 sites
- Ammonoidea2 sites
- Anchura2 sites
- Aporrhais2 sites
- Arcopagia2 sites
- Beudanticeras2 sites
- Birostrina2 sites
- Cleoniceras2 sites
- Cleoniceras (Neosaynella) inornatum2 sites
- Cleoniceras cleon2 sites
- Conulus2 sites
- Cucullaea glabra2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Discoides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Protanisoceras blancheti, 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
7 references- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)2
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand2
- Cretaceous system in northern Peru2
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois2
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires1
- Nouvelles données sur l'Albien de la Chartreuse et du Vercors1
- On records of re-deposited Lower Cretaceous fauna on northern slope of the south-east Caucasus1
Each of the 11 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
Media content1
Picture of Protanisoceras blancheti
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- 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 itProtanisoceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pictet and Campiche 1861)