Puzosia (Bhimaites)

Searched as Bhimaites cf. pinguis. The Paleobiology Database treats Puzosia (Bhimaites) as the accepted name.

Puzosia (Bhimaites) is a subgenus of desmoceratid ammonites with a subinvolute, mostly smooth, high whorled shell with convex or flat sides and frequent constrictions on the venter. It is included in the subfamily Puzosiinae and has been found in Upper Albian and Cenomanian sediments in Angola, South Africa, and southern India.

Puzosia (Bhimaites)

Tingting Yu, Richard Kelly, Lin Mu, Andrew Ross, Jim Kennedy, Pierre Broly, Fangyuan Xia, Haichun Zhang, Bo Wang, and… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
PuzosiaPBDB
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 5.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 100.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrence106–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106.8 Mya100 Mya

1 occurrence of Puzosia (Bhimaites) on record, most of them in the Early 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

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.

Puzosia (Bhimaites) and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Puzosia (Bhimaites) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Puzosia (Bhimaites), 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

1 reference

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Puzosia (Bhimaites)

Credit
Tingting Yu, Richard Kelly, Lin Mu, Andrew Ross, Jim Kennedy, Pierre Broly, Fangyuan Xia, Haichun Zhang, Bo Wang, and…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Puzosia (Bhimaites) 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPuzosia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matsumoto 1954)