Parapopanoceras

Parapopanoceras is a ceratitid ammonite with a small, smooth, very involute and moderately globose shell that lived during the middle Triassic.

Parapopanoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParapopanoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 8.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 59 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 58 of 59 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 59 occurrencesLate Triassic248–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–246 Mya — about 5 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 5 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 9 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 8 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 9 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 9 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 7 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245.19 Mya237 Mya247.5 Mya226.8 Mya

59 occurrences of Parapopanoceras on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

59 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

7 formations

Ulakhan-Krest — 71.81°N, 127.24°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.70°N, 127.80°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.72°N, 127.49°EBotneheia — 78.34°N, 16.52°EBotneheia — 78.50°N, 15.34°EBotneheia — 78.22°N, 17.51°EBotneheia — 78.27°N, 16.86°EBotneheia — 78.56°N, 15.34°EBotneheia — 78.48°N, 15.56°EBotneheia — 78.50°N, 15.86°EToad — 59.35°N, 124.86°WToad — 58.80°N, 122.55°WToad — 58.65°N, 124.25°WToad — 58.54°N, 123.98°WToad — 58.29°N, 124.06°WYuat — 5.00°S, 143.96°ESulphur Mountain — 54.85°N, 121.40°WSulphur Mountain — 54.28°N, 120.33°WBravaisberget — 77.62°N, 14.98°EKongressfjellet — 78.50°N, 22.00°E

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The named rock units Parapopanoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parapopanoceras and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Parapopanoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

99 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Parapopanoceras, 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

18 references

Each of the 59 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Parapopanoceras

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Haug 1894)