Pinacoceras rex
No picture of Pinacoceras rex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pinacoceras rex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Pinacoceras rex 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
8 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 rex 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 rex and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pinacoceras rex and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
207 taxa- Hypocladiscites subtornatus5 sites
- Lobites (Coroceras) naso5 sites
- Mojsvarites agenor5 sites
- Dictyoconites doylei4 sites
- Megaphyllites humilis4 sites
- Mojsvarites eugyrus4 sites
- Orthoceratoidea4 sites
- Arcestes antonii3 sites
- Arcestes periolcus3 sites
- Atractites ausseeanus3 sites
- Discophyllites patens3 sites
- Gryponautilus galeatus3 sites
- Gryponautilus suessi3 sites
- Joannites cymbiformis3 sites
- Joannites klipsteini3 sites
- Lobites delphinocephalus3 sites
- Megaphyllites jarbas3 sites
- Mojsisovicsteuthis convergens3 sites
- Pompeckjites layeri3 sites
- Proarcestes gaytani3 sites
- Proarcestes mojsisovicsi3 sites
- Sageceras haidingeri3 sites
- Simonyceras simonyi3 sites
- Styrionautilus sauperi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pinacoceras rex, 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
3 references- Das Gebirge um Hallstatt. Eine geologisch-paläontologische Studie aus den Alpen. 1 Teil, Die Mollusken-Faunen der Zlambach- und Hallstätter-Schichten5
- Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America2
- Die Cephalopoden der Hallstätter Kalke1
Each of the 8 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
Media content0
No picture of Pinacoceras rex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pinacoceras rex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. von Mojsisovics 1873