Pachysphinctes major

No picture of Pachysphinctes major 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 Pachysphinctes major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachysphinctesPBDB
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 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 10 of 10 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155.3 Mya142.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Pachysphinctes major on record, most of them in the Late 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

10 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

2 formations

Naifa — 14.28°N, 48.55°ENaifa — 14.27°N, 48.57°ENaifa — 14.34°N, 48.39°EMörnsheim — 48.00°N, 10.00°E

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The named rock units Pachysphinctes major has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachysphinctes major and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pachysphinctes major and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pachysphinctes major, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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

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No picture of Pachysphinctes major 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 Pachysphinctes major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pachysphinctes major 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 itPachysphinctes through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1931