Germanonautilus

Searched as Germanonautilus bartovi tumidus n. ssp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Germanonautilus as the accepted name.

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 most 2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 239.48 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiddle Triassic241–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241.96 Mya238.98 Mya

1 occurrence of Germanonautilus 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

1 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

1 formation

Saharonim — 30.60°N, 34.82°E

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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.

Germanonautilus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Germanonautilus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Germanonautilus

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

No 3D scan of Germanonautilus 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.

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 Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

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