Aptychus

Aptychus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmmonoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 12 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 5 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous204–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–195 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences191–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174.7 Mya83.6 Mya204 Mya70 Mya

12 occurrences of Aptychus on record, most of them in the Late 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

12 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

3 formations

Maiolica — 45.75°N, 9.48°EObourg — 50.47°N, 4.00°EFormación Arqueros — 30.66°S, 71.20°W

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The named rock units Aptychus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aptychus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Aptychus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Aptychus, 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

9 references

Each of the 12 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 content2

Picture of Aptychus

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itAmmonoidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Meyer 1861