Amaltheus (Pseudoamaltheus) engelhardti

Kurt Meiers · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Amaltheus (Pseudoamaltheus)PBDB
- 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 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Amaltheus (Pseudoamaltheus) engelhardti on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
4 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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.
Amaltheus (Pseudoamaltheus) engelhardti and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Amaltheus (Pseudoamaltheus) engelhardti and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Amaltheus margaritatus3 sites
- Amaltheus gibbosus1 site
- Amaltheus salebrosum1 site
- Amauroceras ferrugineum1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammodiscus1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Haplophragmium1 site
- Lagenammina1 site
- Lituotuba1 site
- Ogmoconcha1 site
- Ogmoconchella1 site
- Pleuroceras apyrenum1 site
- Pleuroceras solare1 site
- Pleuroceras spinatum1 site
- Pseudonodosaria1 site
- Tolypammina1 site
- Tragophylloceras loscombi1 site
- Trochammina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Amaltheus (Pseudoamaltheus) engelhardti, 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
3 references- Domerian of the Yorkshire Coast2
- Les ammonites du Carixien des Causses (France)1
- Biostratigraphie, Fauna und Mikropaläontologie des Untertoarcium-Profiles von Unterstürmig (Oberfranken, Süddeutschland)1
Each of the 4 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 Amaltheus (Pseudoamaltheus) engelhardti
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Kurt Meiers
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amaltheus (Pseudoamaltheus) engelhardti 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAmaltheus (Pseudoamaltheus) through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1844)