Pleydellia

Searched as Cotteswoldia aalensis distans. The Paleobiology Database treats Pleydellia as the accepted name.

Pleydellia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GrammoceratinaePBDB
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 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 180.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 14 of 14 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences180.9 Mya174.2 Mya

14 occurrences of Pleydellia 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

14 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

1 formation

Jurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°E

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The named rock units Pleydellia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pleydellia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pleydellia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

261 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 164 sites for Pleydellia, 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 14 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Pleydellia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itGrammoceratinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.