Palaeopentacheles roettenbacheri

Palaeopentacheles is an extinct, monospecific genus of decapods in the monogeneric family Palaeopentachelidae that lived in what is now modern day Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg around 150 Ma. It is known from fossils discovered in the Nusplingen Limestone and Solnhofen Limestone formations.

Palaeopentacheles roettenbacheri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeopentachelesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Polychelida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At most 7.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 152.21 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic152–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152.7 Mya144.6 Mya

2 occurrences of Palaeopentacheles roettenbacheri 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

2 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

2 formations

Liegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.11°E

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The named rock units Palaeopentacheles roettenbacheri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Palaeopentacheles roettenbacheri and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Palaeopentacheles roettenbacheri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Palaeopentacheles roettenbacheri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content1

Picture of Palaeopentacheles roettenbacheri

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Palaeopentacheles roettenbacheri 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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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 itPalaeopentacheles through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Munster 1839)