Protocanites

Protocanites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtocanitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Prolecanitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 351.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 10 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 8 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferous366–365 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–356 Mya — about 1 occurrence356–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–353 Mya — about 1 occurrence353–352 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358.86 Mya351.9 Mya366 Mya322.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Protocanites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

10 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

4 formations

Rangari limestone — 30.87°S, 150.50°ERangari limestone — 30.76°S, 150.36°ERangari limestone — 30.75°S, 150.36°ELouisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WNew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WNamoi — 30.58°S, 150.60°E

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The named rock units Protocanites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protocanites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Protocanites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Protocanites, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Protocanites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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 itProtocanitinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmidt 1922