Trachyceras muensteri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrachycerasPBDB
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 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 33 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 29 of 33 occurrencesLate Triassic247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 4 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 4 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 4 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 4 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 4 occurrences241.464 Mya237 Mya247.5 Mya233.1 Mya

33 occurrences of Trachyceras muensteri on record. 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

33 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

4 formations

San Cassian — 46.51°N, 11.86°ESan Cassian — 46.64°N, 11.84°ESan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°EMuschelkalk — 45.94°N, 10.63°E

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The named rock units Trachyceras muensteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

470 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Trachyceras muensteri, 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

7 references

Each of the 33 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 Trachyceras muensteri 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 Trachyceras muensteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Trachyceras muensteri was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wissmann 1841)