Pleurotropites gracilis
No picture of Pleurotropites gracilis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Pleurotropites gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleurotropitesPBDB
- 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.
6 occurrences of Pleurotropites gracilis 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
6 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Pleurotropites gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pleurotropites gracilis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pleurotropites gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Pleurotropites gabbi4 sites
- Hisnitites janmulleri3 sites
- Discotropites sandlingensis2 sites
- Spirogmoceras shastense2 sites
- Trachystenoceras gabbi2 sites
- Tropites dilleri2 sites
- Arcestes (Proarcestes) traski1 site
- Arpadites kingi1 site
- Capillirhynchia solitaria1 site
- Capulus silverthorni1 site
- Clionites (Californites) careyi1 site
- Clionites (Californites) merriami1 site
- Clionites (Neanites) californicus1 site
- Clionites (Neanites) minutus1 site
- Clionites (Neanites) osmonti1 site
- Clionites (Shastites) compactus1 site
- Clionites (Shastites) compressus1 site
- Clionites (Shastites) whitneyi1 site
- Clionites (Stantonites) evolutus1 site
- Clionites (Stantonites) rugosus1 site
- Clionites (Traskites) americanus1 site
- Clionites (Traskites) fairbanksi1 site
- Clionites (Traskites) nanus1 site
- Clionites (Traskites) robustus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pleurotropites gracilis, 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
2 referencesEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pleurotropites gracilis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Pleurotropites gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleurotropites gracilis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itPleurotropites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1927)