Phyllopachyceras
Searched as Phyllopachyceras winkleri winkleri. The Paleobiology Database treats Phyllopachyceras as the accepted name.
Phyllopachyceras is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Phylloceratidae. These nektonic carnivores lived in the Cretaceous, from Hauterivian to Maastrichtian to age.
Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhylloceratinaePBDB
- 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 most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Phyllopachyceras on record, most of them in the Early 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
3 occurrences- Early 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.
Phyllopachyceras and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Phyllopachyceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
574 taxa- Barremites95 sites
- Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) ponticuli58 sites
- Anahamulina48 sites
- Lytoceras48 sites
- Subpulchellia37 sites
- Holcodiscus34 sites
- Karsteniceras34 sites
- Spitidiscus28 sites
- Crioceratites27 sites
- Hamulinites27 sites
- Phylloceras25 sites
- Euphylloceras thetys24 sites
- Protetragonites22 sites
- Bochianites neocomiensis20 sites
- Protetragonites crebrisulcatus20 sites
- Anahamulina subcylindrica19 sites
- Paraspiticeras18 sites
- Pseudophyllites indra18 sites
- Neolissoceras grasianum17 sites
- Dissimilites16 sites
- Gunnarites kalika16 sites
- Neolissoceras16 sites
- Crioceratites (Emericiceras) thiollierei15 sites
- Lytoceras subfimbriatum15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 479 sites for Phyllopachyceras, and this reads 240 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 referenceEach of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Phyllopachyceras
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phyllopachyceras 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhylloceratinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1925)