Pectinatites

Pectinatites is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the order Ammonoidea, that lived during the upper Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic. They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.

Pectinatites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudovirgatitinaePBDB
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 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 6 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous150–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–145 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145.06 Mya137.05 Mya149.7 Mya125.3 Mya

7 occurrences of Pectinatites 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

7 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

Janusfjellet — 78.06°N, 18.69°EAgardfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.91°E

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The named rock units Pectinatites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pectinatites and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pectinatites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pectinatites, 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

3 references

Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Pectinatites

Credit
FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itPseudovirgatitinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.