Paracladiscites indicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacladiscitesPBDB
- 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 least 9.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 237 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 215.38 Mya.
5 occurrences of Paracladiscites indicus 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Paracladiscites indicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paracladiscites indicus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Paracladiscites indicus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
139 taxa- Cladiscites crassestriatus4 sites
- Cladiscites quadratus3 sites
- Hypocladiscites subtornatus3 sites
- Cladiscites beyrichi2 sites
- Anolcites1 site
- Arcestes aspidostomus1 site
- Arcestes cheilostomus1 site
- Arcestes conjugens1 site
- Arcestes dimidiatus1 site
- Arcestes microcephalus1 site
- Arcestes pachystomus1 site
- Arcestes periolcus1 site
- Arcestes richthofeni1 site
- Arcestes simplex1 site
- Arcestes subsimplex1 site
- Atractites1 site
- Atractites ausseeanus1 site
- Aulacoceras sulcatum1 site
- Celtites epolensis1 site
- Cladiscites externeplicatus1 site
- Cladiscites semitornatus1 site
- Cladiscites striatissimus1 site
- Coroceras monilis1 site
- Coroceras nasutum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Paracladiscites indicus, 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
3 references- Systematik und Phylogenie der obertriadischen Cladiscitidae Zittel, 1884 (Ammonoidea)3
- Die Cephalopoden der Hallstätter Kalke1
- Upper Triassic Cephalopoda faunae of the Himalaya1
Each of the 5 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 Paracladiscites indicus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Paracladiscites indicus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParacladiscites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Mojsisovics 1896