Paraceratites elegans

Paraceratites elegans is an extinct species of ammonite cephalopod in the family Ceratitidae. It is known from the Triassic of China and Israel.

No picture of Paraceratites elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Paraceratites elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaceratitesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 10 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 14 of 14 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247.5 Mya236.5 Mya

14 occurrences of Paraceratites elegans 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

14 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

8 formations

Felsoors — 47.02°N, 17.94°EFelsöörs — 47.06°N, 17.99°EChaqupu — 30.00°N, 90.76°EVászoly — 46.91°N, 17.68°EFelsőörs — 46.90°N, 17.65°EWetterstein — 47.31°N, 11.38°EHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°E

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The named rock units Paraceratites elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paraceratites elegans and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Paraceratites elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Paraceratites elegans, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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. 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 content0

No picture of Paraceratites elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Paraceratites elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Paraceratites elegans 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 itParaceratites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Mojsisovics 1882)