Phylloceras trifoliatum

No picture of Phylloceras trifoliatum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Phylloceras trifoliatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 168.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 168.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic175–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence170.9 Mya168.6 Mya175.2 Mya167.7 Mya

6 occurrences of Phylloceras trifoliatum on record, most of them in the Middle 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

6 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

Kambe — 4.02°S, 39.55°E

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The named rock units Phylloceras trifoliatum 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.

Phylloceras trifoliatum and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Phylloceras trifoliatum and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Phylloceras trifoliatum, 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

2 references

Each of the 6 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

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No picture of Phylloceras trifoliatum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Phylloceras trifoliatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Phylloceras trifoliatum 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itPhylloceras through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neumayr 1871