Pterosirenites auritus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PterosirenitesPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 215.38 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pterosirenites auritus 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pterosirenites auritus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pterosirenites auritus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pterosirenites auritus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Dimorphites pardonetiensis3 sites
- Guembelites clavatus2 sites
- Tropiceltites columbianus2 sites
- Clionitites laevis1 site
- Clionitites punctulus1 site
- Discophyllites ebneri1 site
- Gonionotites gethingi1 site
- Gonionotites spiekeri1 site
- Griesbachites borealis1 site
- Griesbachites humi1 site
- Griesbachites pinensis1 site
- Guembelites jandianus1 site
- Metathisbites dawsoni1 site
- Pinacoceras1 site
- Stikinoceras kerri1 site
- Styrites communis1 site
- Tropiceltites inflatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pterosirenites auritus, 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
2 referencesEach of the 4 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 Pterosirenites auritus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pterosirenites auritus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pterosirenites auritus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPterosirenites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tozer 1980