Pachydesmoceras

Pachydesmoceras is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Desmoceratidae.

Pachydesmoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PuzosiinaePBDB
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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 41 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 40 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 41 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 6 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 9 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 9 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya107.1 Mya65.2 Mya

41 occurrences of Pachydesmoceras on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

41 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

11 formations

Cotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WCotinguiba — 10.61°S, 36.95°WMungo River — 4.55°N, 9.55°EMungo River — 4.55°N, 9.53°EMungo River — 4.53°N, 9.51°EEze-Aku — 6.00°N, 7.47°EWhisky Bay — 64.17°S, 57.75°WBrochterbeck — 52.10°N, 8.30°EMain Street Limestone — 32.80°N, 97.24°WIeru — 5.59°S, 142.15°EDakota Sandstone — 35.56°N, 106.77°WWadi Daya — 34.03°N, 5.41°WPuentedey — 42.97°N, 3.69°WSidney Island — 48.60°N, 123.27°W

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The named rock units Pachydesmoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachydesmoceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pachydesmoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

142 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Pachydesmoceras, 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

26 references

Each of the 41 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. 14 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 Pachydesmoceras

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pachydesmoceras 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

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

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What may have been alongside itPuzosiinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1922