Pachydiscus subcompressus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PachydiscusPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Pachydiscus subcompressus 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
14 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
4 formations
- Krasnoyarka Formation9
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group3
- Shimonada Formation1
- Ragged Valley Shale Formation · Asuncion Group1
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The named rock units Pachydiscus subcompressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pachydiscus subcompressus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pachydiscus subcompressus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Anagaudryceras1 site
- Baculites lomaensis1 site
- Baculites rex1 site
- Bostrychoceras1 site
- Cataceramus balticus1 site
- Damesites hetonaiensis1 site
- Didymoceras vancouverensis1 site
- Epigoniceras epigonum1 site
- Exiteloceras desertense1 site
- Gaudryceras kayei1 site
- Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)1 site
- Hauericeras rembda1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Lithophaga1 site
- Nautilus (Cymatoceras) hermosus1 site
- Neodesmoceras catarinae1 site
- Nostoceras1 site
- Pseudophyllites1 site
- Solenoceras1 site
- Tetragonites popetensis1 site
- Volutoderma perissa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pachydiscus subcompressus, 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
4 references- Late Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) ammonoids from the Naiba area, southern Sakhalin, Russian Far East9
- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results3
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) ammonites from Awaji Island, southwest Japan1
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Pachydiscus subcompressus 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 Pachydiscus subcompressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pachydiscus subcompressus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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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What may have been alongside itPachydiscus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matsumoto 1954)