Ptychites opulentus

Ptychites opulentus

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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 20 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 17 of 18 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 18 occurrencesLate Triassic248–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 3 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 4 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247.5 Mya226.8 Mya

18 occurrences of Ptychites opulentus 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

18 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

7 formations

Hallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°EGutenstein — 47.68°N, 14.73°EWetterstein — 47.31°N, 11.35°EWetterstein — 47.30°N, 11.34°EChaqupu — 30.00°N, 90.76°EBulog — 43.85°N, 18.48°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EFurkaska — 49.27°N, 19.81°E

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The named rock units Ptychites opulentus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptychites opulentus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

298 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Ptychites opulentus, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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 Ptychites opulentus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Mojsisovics 1882