Pseudotitanoceras

Teichert, Curt · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- OcunautilidaePBDB
- 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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Pseudotitanoceras on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
14 occurrences- Permian100%
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
8 formations
- Akhura Formation3
- Julfa Formation2
- Julfa Formation2
- Changxing Formation2
- Hambast Formation1
- Akhura Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudotitanoceras 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.
Pseudotitanoceras and its relatives
PermianWhere Pseudotitanoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Cryptophyllum leptoconicum5 sites
- Pseudogastrioceras abichianum5 sites
- Prototoceras tropitum4 sites
- Transcaucasathyris araxensis4 sites
- Domatoceras3 sites
- Foordiceras3 sites
- Pseudotoceras djoulfense3 sites
- Serometacoceras dorashamense3 sites
- Serometacoceras dorsoarmatum3 sites
- Serometacoceras verae3 sites
- Spinomarginifera helica3 sites
- Acosarina dorashamensis2 sites
- Araxoceras trochoides2 sites
- Bairdia anbeedei2 sites
- Fididomatoceras gracile2 sites
- Fistulipora jakovlevi2 sites
- Haydenella kiangsiensis2 sites
- Hollinella herrickana2 sites
- Julfamichelinia allata2 sites
- Lopingoceras lopingense2 sites
- Neocycloceras2 sites
- Neocycloceras margaritatum2 sites
- Notothyris djoulfensis2 sites
- Orthothetina peregrina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pseudotitanoceras, 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
7 references- Kotlyar et al., 19834
- The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary4
- Late Permian nautiloids from western Guizhou2
- A new Changhsingian (Late Permian) nautiloid assemblage from Gujiao, South China1
- Nautiloid cephalopods from the Julfa beds, Upper Permian, northwest Iran1
- Uppermost Permian and Permo-Triassic transition beds in Central Iran1
- Abich, 18781
Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Pseudotitanoceras
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Teichert, Curt
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudotitanoceras 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 itOcunautilidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shimansky 1965