Ptychophylloceras flabellatum
Orbigny (d') · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychophyllocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Ptychophylloceras flabellatum on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
11 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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.
Ptychophylloceras flabellatum and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Ptychophylloceras flabellatum and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Calliphylloceras disputabile8 sites
- Holcophylloceras mediterraneum6 sites
- Kamptokephalites6 sites
- Macrocephalites6 sites
- Nothocephalites6 sites
- Indocephalites5 sites
- Lytoceras eudesianum adeloides5 sites
- Palaeonucula5 sites
- Pleurocephalites5 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea4 sites
- Choffatia4 sites
- Partschiceras4 sites
- Torquirhynchia pseudoinconstans4 sites
- Arcomytilus laitmairensis3 sites
- Ceratomya3 sites
- Ceromya concentrica3 sites
- Cryptorhynchia rugosa3 sites
- Grammatodon3 sites
- Kutchithyris acutiplicata3 sites
- Nuculoma3 sites
- Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus3 sites
- Paracenoceras kumagunense3 sites
- Pholadomya3 sites
- Phylloceras kudernatschi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ptychophylloceras flabellatum, 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
3 references- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires8
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule II (Bathonien, Callovien). Pl. VI-XXXIII2
- Le Lias supérieur et le Jurassique moyen de l’Ardèche (3e fascicule). Deuxième partie. Contribution à la connaissance des Oppeliidae du Jurassique moyen1
Each of the 11 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
Media content1
Picture of Ptychophylloceras flabellatum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Orbigny (d')
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ptychophylloceras flabellatum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPtychophylloceras through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neumayr 1871