Psiloceras pacificum

Psiloceras pacificum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PsilocerasPBDB
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 most 1.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 199.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 8 occurrencesEarly Jurassic201–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201.9 Mya199 Mya

8 occurrences of Psiloceras pacificum on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

8 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

2 formations

Sunrise — 38.49°N, 118.08°WKendlbach — 47.48°N, 11.53°E

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The named rock units Psiloceras pacificum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Psiloceras pacificum and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Psiloceras pacificum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Psiloceras pacificum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Psiloceras pacificum

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iDigBio
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Psiloceras pacificum 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 itPsiloceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guex 1980