Pleuronautilus

Pleuronautilus

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
PleuronautilidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 112 occurrencesPermian — about 40 of 112 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 6 of 112 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 46 of 112 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 19 of 112 occurrencesLate Triassic306–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences299–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences289–285 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences282–278 Mya — about 3 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 3 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 3 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 1 occurrence265–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–251 Mya — about 14 occurrences251–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences248–245 Mya — about 13 occurrences245–241 Mya — about 30 occurrences241–238 Mya — about 5 occurrences238–234 Mya — about 5 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 4 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 4 occurrences228–224 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences224–221 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221–217 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 1 occurrence214–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–204 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences298.9 Mya211.18 Mya306 Mya204 Mya

112 occurrences of Pleuronautilus 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

112 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

40 formations

Gutenstein — 47.68°N, 14.73°EBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.86°N, 18.45°ECathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WHalstatt — 47.60°N, 13.88°EHalstatt — 47.56°N, 13.63°EHalstatt — 47.67°N, 13.10°EWetterstein — 47.30°N, 11.37°EWetterstein — 46.61°N, 13.67°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EGabbs — 38.00°N, 118.00°WNakadaira — 39.03°N, 141.51°ENakadaira — 39.05°N, 141.52°EChhidru — 32.44°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.41°N, 72.10°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 71.85°EFelsoörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EEsino — 45.97°N, 9.36°EMoenkopi — 37.10°N, 113.25°WHambast — 30.91°N, 53.22°ELuning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WOchiai — 38.98°N, 141.53°ECutoff — 31.84°N, 104.85°WThaynes — 44.73°N, 112.82°WThaynes — 44.23°N, 111.44°WChangxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°EChangxing — 26.14°N, 105.28°ESilungkang — 1.75°S, 101.80°EMarmolata — 46.45°N, 11.87°EDalong — 26.51°N, 106.87°EUrushten — 43.96°N, 40.70°EChelamchin — 38.65°N, 70.60°EGundara — 38.15°N, 70.42°E

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The named rock units Pleuronautilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleuronautilus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,439 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Pleuronautilus, 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

46 references

Each of the 112 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. 34 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 content1

Picture of Pleuronautilus

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pleuronautilus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPleuronautilidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Mojsisovics 1882