Physodoceras altenense
No picture of Physodoceras altenense 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 Physodoceras altenense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhysodocerasPBDB
- 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 most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 149.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Physodoceras altenense 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
4 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Physodoceras altenense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Physodoceras altenense and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Physodoceras altenense and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Orthosphinctes3 sites
- Taramelliceras subnereus3 sites
- Aspidoceras (Physodoceras) circumspinosum2 sites
- Glochiceras (Glochiceras) nimbatum2 sites
- Glochiceras (Lingulaticeras) lingulatum2 sites
- Lithacosphinctes2 sites
- Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes) freybergi2 sites
- Orthosphinctes polygyratus2 sites
- Rasenia2 sites
- Sutneria (Sutneria) platynota2 sites
- Taramelliceras (Metahaploceras) litocerum2 sites
- Taramelliceras kobyi quenstedti2 sites
- Taramelliceras kobyi wegeli2 sites
- Amoeboceras1 site
- Amoeboceras (Amoeboceras) lineatum1 site
- Benetticeras1 site
- Calliphylloceras manfredi1 site
- Conotomaria1 site
- Eopecten velatus1 site
- Glochiceras (Lingulaticeras) crenosum1 site
- Hibolithes semisulcatus1 site
- Holcophylloceras mediterraneum1 site
- Holcophylloceras polyolcum1 site
- Lithacoceras (Progeronia)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Physodoceras altenense, 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
2 references- Kimmeridgian-Lower Tithonian ammonite assemblages from Ghilcoş-Hăghimaş Massif (eastern Carpathians, Romania)2
- Kondensierte Ammonitenbänke im Beckenbereich des basalen Kimmeridge der Nördlichen Frankenalb (Alter Steinbruch Ludwag, Ofr.)2
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Physodoceras altenense 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 Physodoceras altenense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Physodoceras altenense 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPhysodoceras through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)