Germanonautilus

Germanonautilus is a cephalopod genus in the nautilid family Tainoceratidae. It is characterized by a particularly broad shell with a flat venter and is relatively large, reaching diameters of over 30 cm. The genus contains many species and was geographically widespread, occurring in south and central Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia and India, and the Circum-Pacific regions of North America and Japan. It lived from the Middle Triassic to the Lower Jurassic.

Germanonautilus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
TainoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 140 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 140 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 52 of 140 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 83 of 140 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 140 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–247 Mya — about 4 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 7 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 18 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 15 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 8 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 8 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 20 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 14 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 6 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 6 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 5 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 2 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 2 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 4 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 5 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 4 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–206 Mya — about 1 occurrence206–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–200 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences254.14 Mya205.7 Mya261 Mya200 Mya

140 occurrences of Germanonautilus on record, most of them in the Late 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

140 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

29 formations

Cassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.95°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ELuning — 38.87°N, 117.62°WLuning — 38.50°N, 117.75°WTrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°ETrochitenkalk — 51.66°N, 9.06°ETrochitenkalk — 50.76°N, 9.81°ETrochitenkalk — 50.95°N, 11.25°EYuat — 5.01°S, 143.98°EHalstatt — 47.65°N, 13.70°EHalstatt — 47.62°N, 14.75°EHalstatt — 47.60°N, 13.88°EZuhánya — 46.13°N, 18.02°EMoenkopi — 37.10°N, 113.25°WMoenkopi — 37.05°N, 113.27°WPeschanka — 43.25°N, 131.72°EPeschanka — 43.30°N, 132.05°EPeschanka — 43.32°N, 131.83°EFelsoörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°ECehegin — 38.21°N, 1.63°WCehegin — 38.14°N, 1.77°WSaharonim — 30.60°N, 34.82°ESaharonim — 30.36°N, 34.44°EGrès de Kirchaou — 33.02°N, 10.78°EFavret — 39.61°N, 117.49°WEbitiem — 71.82°N, 127.64°EGevanim — 30.60°N, 34.82°ELower Gogolin Beds — 50.23°N, 19.28°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EHambast — 30.89°N, 53.22°EBreno — 45.95°N, 10.05°EBellerophon — 46.58°N, 11.70°EWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°EKamishak — 57.72°N, 155.30°WPrida — 40.27°N, 118.09°W

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The named rock units Germanonautilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Germanonautilus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Germanonautilus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 121 sites for Germanonautilus, 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

46 references

Each of the 140 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. 34 further references are not listed. 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 Germanonautilus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Germanonautilus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itTainoceratidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Mojsisovics 1902