Pleurodistichites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DistichitidaePBDB
- 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 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Pleurodistichites 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
6 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Pleurodistichites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pleurodistichites and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pleurodistichites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Pseudosirenites pardoneti3 sites
- Distichites gethingi2 sites
- Distichites canadensis1 site
- Distichites columbianus1 site
- Distichites harpalos1 site
- Helictites minor1 site
- Himavatites1 site
- Himavatites planiplicatus1 site
- Parajuvavites1 site
- Parathisbites obtusus1 site
- Parathisbites oineus1 site
- Parathisbites pardoneti1 site
- Paratibetites bertrandi1 site
- Phormedites juvavicus1 site
- Phormedites transiens1 site
- Pinacoceras metternichi1 site
- Trachypleuraspidites griffithi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pleurodistichites, 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
4 references- Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas3
- Obertriassische Ammonoideen aus dem Zentralnepalesischen Himalaya (Gebiet von Jomsom) [Upper Triassic ammonoids from the central Nepalese Himalaya (Jomsom area)]1
- New genera of Triassic Ammonoidea1
- Upper Triassic Cephalopoda faunae of the Himalaya1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Pleurodistichites 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 Pleurodistichites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleurodistichites 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 itDistichitidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tozer 1980