Pseudophyllites indra
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudophyllitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.
57 occurrences of Pseudophyllites indra on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
57 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
15 formations
- Miria Formation18
- Matanuska Formation7
- Krasnoyarka Formation5
- Valudavur Formation2
- Quiriquina Formation2
- Kaguyak Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudophyllites indra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudophyllites indra and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudophyllites indra and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Desmophyllites diphylloides19 sites
- Gunnarites kalika19 sites
- Phyllopachyceras forbesianum19 sites
- Diplomoceras cylindraceum18 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) surya16 sites
- Kitchinites spathi16 sites
- Eubaculites carinatus15 sites
- Gaudryceras kayei13 sites
- Menuites fresvillensis12 sites
- Grossouvrites gemmatus11 sites
- Maorites densicostatus11 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) australis11 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum10 sites
- Anagaudryceras politissimum8 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti australis7 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) neubergicus dissitus7 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense6 sites
- Eubaculites simplex5 sites
- Inoceramus subundatus5 sites
- Pseudophyllites latus5 sites
- Anagaudryceras matsumotoi4 sites
- Brahmaites (Brahmaites) kossmati4 sites
- Gaudryceras tenuiliratum4 sites
- Glyptoxoceras rugatum4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Pseudophyllites indra, 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- Maastrichtian Non-Heteromorph Ammonites from the Miria Formation, Western Australia20
- Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maestrichtian) ammonites from southern Alaska8
- Les ammonites spiralées du Campanien et du Maastrichtien de Tercis les Bains (Landes, France)6
- Stratigraphy and fossil assemblages of the Upper Cretaceous system in the Makarov area, southern Sakhalin, Russian Far East5
- Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile2
- Report on the fossil invertebrata from southern India, collected by Mr. Kaye and Mr. Cunliffe2
- First record of late Campanian ammonites from the Abderaz Formation of the Koppeh Dagh, northeastern Iran1
- Cephalopod and brachiopod fossils from the Pacific: Evidence from the Upper Cretaceous of the Magellan Seamounts1
- Ammonite and inoceramid faunas from the Davutlar Formation of the Devrekani-Kastamonu area, nothern Turkey, and their biostratigraphical significance1
- Upper Maastrichtian ammonites and nannofossils and a Palaeocene nautiloid from Richards Bay, Kwa Zulu, South Africa1
- Additions to the ammonite fauna of the Upper Cretaceous Navesink Formation of New Jersey1
- Upper Maastrichtian ammonites from the Marnes de Nay between Gan and Rébénacq (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), France1
Each of the 57 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 Pseudophyllites indra
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1846)