Ptychites

Ptychites is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the family Ptychitidae. These nektonic carnivores lived during the Triassic period, from Anisian to Ladinian age.

Ptychites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychitidaePBDB
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 8.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 233 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 228 of 233 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 5 of 233 occurrencesLate Triassic248–247 Mya — about 3 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 11 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 11 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 14 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 30 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 43 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 34 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 34 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 27 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 4 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 4 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 4 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245.19 Mya237 Mya247.5 Mya226.8 Mya

233 occurrences of Ptychites 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

233 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

39 formations

Botneheia — 77.55°N, 14.79°EBotneheia — 78.34°N, 16.52°EBotneheia — 78.50°N, 15.34°EBotneheia — 78.22°N, 17.51°EBotneheia — 78.27°N, 16.86°EBotneheia — 78.56°N, 15.34°EBotneheia — 78.34°N, 16.42°EBotneheia — 78.48°N, 15.56°EBotneheia — 78.50°N, 15.86°EBotneheia — 78.29°N, 16.56°EFavret — 40.02°N, 117.35°WFavret — 40.07°N, 117.58°WFavret — 40.05°N, 117.54°WFavret — 40.04°N, 117.56°WHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°EBulog — 43.98°N, 18.66°EBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.85°N, 18.46°EGutenstein — 47.68°N, 14.73°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°ESulphur Mountain — 53.72°N, 118.96°WSulphur Mountain — 54.68°N, 121.01°WSulphur Mountain — 54.85°N, 121.40°WPrezzo — 45.98°N, 10.59°EToad — 57.22°N, 123.28°WToad — 58.65°N, 124.25°WToad — 57.24°N, 123.39°WToad — 59.19°N, 124.70°WToad — 59.35°N, 124.82°WFalang — 25.16°N, 104.79°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ERifu — 38.35°N, 141.03°EKapp Toscana — 78.58°N, 15.29°EKapp Toscana — 78.33°N, 16.48°EKapp Toscana — 78.27°N, 16.86°EKapp Toscana — 77.91°N, 21.66°EDunnatető Limestone — 48.48°N, 20.74°EWetterstein — 47.30°N, 11.37°EWetterstein — 47.30°N, 11.34°EKongressfjellet — 78.50°N, 22.00°EFelsoors — 47.02°N, 17.94°EDoi Chang — 18.30°N, 99.73°EBulog — 43.16°N, 19.06°ESchei Point — 77.22°N, 95.87°WFelsõörs Limestone — 46.88°N, 17.60°EPrezzo Limestone — 45.82°N, 10.47°EGrès de Kirchaou — 33.02°N, 10.78°EKarazin — 43.03°N, 131.93°E

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The named rock units Ptychites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptychites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Ptychites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

747 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 177 sites for Ptychites, 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

63 references

Each of the 233 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. 51 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 Ptychites

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPtychitidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1875