Protargentinolithus erraticus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtargentinolithusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Protargentinolithus erraticus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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 Protargentinolithus erraticus 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.
Protargentinolithus erraticus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Protargentinolithus erraticus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
217 taxa- Arius danicus5 sites
- Centroberyx fragilis5 sites
- Chlorophthalmus postangulatus5 sites
- Gadomorpholithus ponderosus5 sites
- Merluccius balticus5 sites
- Ophidiidarum seelandicus5 sites
- Pterothrissus conchaeformis5 sites
- Bidenichthys lapierrei4 sites
- Gadiformes4 sites
- Hoplostethus lacinatus4 sites
- Palaeogadus sinangulatus4 sites
- Protocolliolus amorphus4 sites
- Rhechias angulosus4 sites
- Acropoma3 sites
- Argentina longirostris3 sites
- Carangidarum3 sites
- Protargentinolithus balticus3 sites
- Protargentinolithus procerus3 sites
- Sparidarum3 sites
- Veliferidarum harderi3 sites
- Argentinidarum sp.2 sites
- Centroberyx integer2 sites
- Conger illaesus2 sites
- Coryphaenoides amager2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Protargentinolithus erraticus, 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
2 references- Fish otoliths from the Paleocene of Denmark4
- Fish otoliths from the Paleocene (Selandian) of West Greenland1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protargentinolithus erraticus 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 Protargentinolithus erraticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protargentinolithus erraticus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itProtargentinolithus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roedel 1930)