Ptychites trochleaeformis

Ptychites trochleaeformis

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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 6.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 243.43 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 10 of 10 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243.9 Mya236.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Ptychites trochleaeformis 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

10 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

6 formations

Botneheia — 78.34°N, 16.52°EBotneheia — 78.50°N, 15.34°EBotneheia — 78.22°N, 17.51°EBotneheia — 78.29°N, 16.56°ESulphur Mountain — 53.72°N, 118.96°WSchei Point — 77.22°N, 95.87°WRifu — 38.35°N, 141.03°EToad — 59.35°N, 124.82°WBravaisberget — 78.10°N, 13.88°E

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

Ptychites trochleaeformis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ptychites trochleaeformis, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 trochleaeformis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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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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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. (Lindstroem 1865)