Phyllopachyceras

Phyllopachyceras is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Phylloceratidae. These nektonic carnivores lived in the Cretaceous, from Hauterivian to Maastrichtian to age.

Phyllopachyceras

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 565 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 565 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 510 of 565 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 54 of 565 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 565 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 72 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 108 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 98 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 106 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 91 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 6 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 7 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 9 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 5 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 12 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 14 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences161.5 Mya72.2 Mya170 Mya64 Mya

565 occurrences of Phyllopachyceras on record, most of them in the Early 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

565 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

42 formations

Donji Milanovac — 44.53°N, 22.04°EBersek Marl — 47.75°N, 18.50°EEl Mergueb — 36.84°N, 9.62°EMiria — 22.77°S, 114.18°EMiria — 22.96°S, 114.08°EMiria — 22.89°S, 114.12°EMiria — 22.83°S, 114.14°EMiria — 22.70°S, 114.24°EMiria — 22.63°S, 114.26°EBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.56°WBudden Canyon — 40.49°N, 122.49°WBudden Canyon — 40.44°N, 122.63°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.66°WBudden Canyon — 40.60°N, 122.91°WMaiolica — 43.59°N, 12.54°EMaiolica — 43.53°N, 12.58°EMaiolica — 45.75°N, 9.48°EMyrtle — 43.29°N, 123.18°WMyrtle — 42.84°N, 124.54°WMiddle Haborogawa — 44.13°N, 141.75°EDays Creek — 42.95°N, 123.36°WDays Creek — 42.56°N, 124.07°WBiancone — 45.58°N, 11.12°EUpper Haborogawa — 44.13°N, 141.75°ERio Mayer — 48.92°S, 71.92°WRio Mayer — 49.40°S, 71.82°WWhisky Bay — 64.17°S, 57.75°WMaringi — 40.88°S, 176.07°EMaringi — 40.95°S, 175.67°EMaringi — 40.88°S, 176.97°ELabatlan Sandstone — 47.75°N, 18.50°EKennicott — 61.50°N, 143.17°WKennicott — 61.50°N, 143.25°WPuez — 46.59°N, 11.79°EOtamatea — 36.20°S, 174.29°EBykov — 48.67°N, 142.60°EBykov — 48.68°N, 142.66°EValudavur — 12.03°N, 79.75°ERossfeld — 47.69°N, 13.66°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EPluto Glacier — 71.56°S, 68.22°WPieniny Limestone — 49.43°N, 20.03°E

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The named rock units Phyllopachyceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 400 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phyllopachyceras and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Phyllopachyceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

574 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 479 sites for Phyllopachyceras, and this reads 240 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

68 references

Each of the 565 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. 56 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 Phyllopachyceras

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1925)