Pinacoceras imperator
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PinacocerasPBDB
- 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 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya.
5 occurrences of Pinacoceras imperator on record, most of them in the Late 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
5 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Pinacoceras imperator has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pinacoceras imperator and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pinacoceras imperator and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Atractites alveolaris2 sites
- Cladiscites tornatus2 sites
- Megaphyllites insectus2 sites
- Paracladiscites multilobatus2 sites
- Paranautilus simonyi2 sites
- Rhacophyllites debilis2 sites
- Arcestes1 site
- Arcestes diphyus1 site
- Arcestes distinctus1 site
- Arcestes gigantogaleatus1 site
- Arcestes hypocyrtus1 site
- Arcestes intuslabiatus1 site
- Arcestes megalosomus1 site
- Arcestes polycaulus1 site
- Atractites1 site
- Atractites conicus1 site
- Cladiscites neortus1 site
- Cladiscites obesus1 site
- Cladiscites quadratus1 site
- Clydonautilus griesbachi1 site
- Dictyoconites lacicus1 site
- Gonionautilus securus1 site
- Grypoceras haloricum1 site
- Grypoceras mesodicum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pinacoceras imperator, 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
4 references- Das Gebirge um Hallstatt. Eine geologisch-paläontologische Studie aus den Alpen. 1 Teil, Die Mollusken-Faunen der Zlambach- und Hallstätter-Schichten2
- Norian ammonoids from the Nayband Formation (Iran) and their bearing on Late Triassic sedimentary and geodynamic history of the Iran Plate1
- Die Cephalopoden der Hallstätter Kalke1
- Upper Triassic Cephalopoda faunae of the Himalaya1
Each of the 5 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
Media content0
No picture of Pinacoceras imperator 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 Pinacoceras imperator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pinacoceras imperator 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 itPinacoceras through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hauer 1849)