Subprionocyclus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CollignoniceratinaePBDB
- 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 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
106 occurrences of Subprionocyclus 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
106 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
15 formations
- Ladd Formation30
- Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation · Chalk Group11
- Redding Formation · Pacheco Group8
- Cotinguiba Formation8
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group6
- Hornbrook Formation4
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The named rock units Subprionocyclus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Subprionocyclus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Subprionocyclus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
244 taxa- Sciponoceras bohemicum14 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia10 sites
- Lewesiceras mantelli9 sites
- Nostoceras (Eubostrychoceras) saxonicum9 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica8 sites
- Scaphites geinitzii8 sites
- Tenea inflata8 sites
- Alleinacin sulcata7 sites
- Anchura (Helicaulax) tricosa7 sites
- Calva (Calva) regina7 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida7 sites
- Isocardia delta7 sites
- Lima (Acesta) beta7 sites
- Trigonarca californica7 sites
- Callistalox arata6 sites
- Collignoniceras bravaisianum6 sites
- Crassatella gamma6 sites
- Gymnarus manubriatus6 sites
- Hyphantoceras (Hyphantoceras) reussianum6 sites
- Alarimella veta5 sites
- Ampullina pseudoalveata5 sites
- Clisocolus corrugatus5 sites
- Inoceramus5 sites
- Inoceramus teshioensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Subprionocyclus, 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
24 references- Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III20
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast17
- The ammonites of the English Chalk Rock (Upper Turonian)9
- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California8
- Turonian inoceramids and biostratigraphy of the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil: an integrated study of the Votorantim and Nassau quarries7
- Water depth indications from Late Cretaceous mollusks, Santa Ana Mountains, California6
- Late Cretaceous paleoecology of the Holz Shale, Orange County, California6
- Die Oberkreide der Sack-Mulde bei Alfeld (Cenoman-Unter-Coniac) Lithologie, Biostratigraphie und Inoceramen5
- Late Turonian ammonites from Haute-Normandie, France3
- Kreide-Fossilien in Sachsen, Teil 1, 7. Ammoniten3
- Three new Turonian muricacean gastropods from the Santa Ana Mountains, Southern California3
- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California3
Each of the 106 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Subprionocyclus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
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- not stated by the source
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- Specimen
- Subprionocyclus sp. · YPM:IP:YPM IP 855374
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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Everything alive alongside itCollignoniceratinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.