Protocentrophorus balticus
No picture of Protocentrophorus balticus 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 Protocentrophorus balticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtocentrophorusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Protocentrophorus balticus 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Protocentrophorus balticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protocentrophorus balticus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Protocentrophorus balticus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Eostriatolamia striatula1 site
- Hexanchus microdon1 site
- Hispidaspis gigas1 site
- Leptostyrax macrorhiza1 site
- Protosqualus glickmani1 site
- Ptychodus decurrens1 site
- Ptychodus mammillaris1 site
- Scapanorhynchus raphiodon1 site
- Squalicorax falcatus1 site
- Squaliodalatias1 site
- Squalus1 site
- Synechodus nitidus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Protocentrophorus balticus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Protocentrophorus balticus 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 Protocentrophorus balticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protocentrophorus balticus 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 itProtocentrophorus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalinkevičius 1935)