Procladiscites

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProcladiscitinaePBDB
- 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 7.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 247 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 227.3 Mya.
33 occurrences of Procladiscites 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
33 occurrencesThese 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
15 formations
- Bulog Formation8
- Osawa Formation2
- Acheshbok Formation2
- Dunnatető Limestone Formation2
- Hallstatt Formation2
- Esino Formation2
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The named rock units Procladiscites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Procladiscites and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Procladiscites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
484 taxa- Monophyllites wengensis13 sites
- Trematoceras elegans10 sites
- Sturia sansovinii9 sites
- Flexoptychites acutus8 sites
- Flexoptychites flexuosus8 sites
- Gymnites incultus8 sites
- Atractites7 sites
- Gymnites7 sites
- Orthoceratoidea7 sites
- Ptychites oppeli7 sites
- Arcestes6 sites
- Praepinacoceras damesi6 sites
- Syringoceras6 sites
- Acrochordiceras carolinae5 sites
- Ceratites5 sites
- Discoptychites pauli5 sites
- Leiophyllites suessi5 sites
- Norites gondola5 sites
- Pleuronautilus5 sites
- Acrochordiceras hyatti4 sites
- Atractites obeliscus4 sites
- Discoptychites dux4 sites
- Discoptychites megalodiscus4 sites
- Gymnites humboldti4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Procladiscites, 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
20 references- Geologie der Umgebung von Sarajevo8
- Lithofacies palaeogeography and biostratigraphy of the lowermost horizons of the Middle Triassic Hallstatt Limestones (Argolis Peninsula, Greece)2
- Late Anisian Ammonoidea from Szár-hegy (Rudabánya Mts); a Dinaric-type fauna from North Hungary2
- Triassic ammonoids of the northwest Caucasus2
- The Ladinian ammonoids from the Calcare di Esino of Val Parina (Bergamasc Alps, Northern Italy). Part. 12
- Lower Anisian (Aegean) ammonites from Chios Island (Greece)2
- Die Cephalopoden der Mediterranen Triasprovinz2
- Latest Olenekian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the uppermost part of the Osawa Formation (Inai Group) in the South Kitakami Belt, northeast Japan1
- Middle Triassic (Anisian) cephalopods from the Mecsek Mountains, Hungary1
- A review on Late Scythian to Middle Anisian Ammonoids from the Alam Formation in Nakhlak area, Central Iran1
- The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Anisian Stage: Deşli Caira Hill, North Dobrogea, Romania1
- New data on ammonoids and biostratigraphy of the classical Spathian Kcira sections (Lower Triassic, Albania)1
Each of the 33 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. 8 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 Procladiscites
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Procladiscites 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 itProcladiscitinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Mojsisovics 1882