Ptychites evolvens
No picture of Ptychites evolvens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ptychites evolvens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychitesPBDB
- 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 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ptychites evolvens 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
3 occurrences- Middle 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ptychites evolvens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ptychites evolvens and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Ptychites evolvens and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Paraceratites trinodosus3 sites
- Beyrichites beneckei2 sites
- Nautilus tintoretti2 sites
- Ptychites gibbus2 sites
- Semiornites aviticus2 sites
- Acrochordiceras carolinae1 site
- Arcestes extralabiatus1 site
- Arthaberites alexandrae1 site
- Atractites boeckhi1 site
- Atractites obeliscus1 site
- Atractites secundus1 site
- Balatonites gemmatus1 site
- Balatonites prezzanus1 site
- Balatonites zitteli1 site
- Beyrichites maturus1 site
- Beyrichites reuttensis1 site
- Bulogites superbus1 site
- Celtites josephi1 site
- Celtites retrorsus1 site
- Ceratites beyrichi1 site
- Ceratites petersi1 site
- Ceratites suavis1 site
- Danubites floriani1 site
- Danubites michaelis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ptychites evolvens, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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
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No picture of Ptychites evolvens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ptychites evolvens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptychites evolvens 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 itPtychites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Mojsisovics 1882