Pleuronautilus
Searched as Pleuronautilus crassascens semijugulata. The Paleobiology Database treats Pleuronautilus as the accepted name.
Pleuronautilus is a nautiloid genus; family Tainoceratidae, order Nautilida.
Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleuronautilidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pleuronautilus on record, most of them in the Middle 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
1 occurrences- Middle 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pleuronautilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pleuronautilus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Pleuronautilus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
1,439 taxa- Monophyllites wengensis12 sites
- Trematoceras elegans11 sites
- Sturia sansovinii9 sites
- Atractites8 sites
- Flexoptychites flexuosus8 sites
- Gymnites incultus8 sites
- Flexoptychites acutus7 sites
- Orthoceratoidea7 sites
- Paraceratites trinodosus7 sites
- Ptychites oppeli7 sites
- Arcestes6 sites
- Procladiscites brancoi6 sites
- Ptychites eusomus6 sites
- Acrochordiceras carolinae5 sites
- Balatonites zitteli5 sites
- Ceratites5 sites
- Discoptychites dux5 sites
- Discoptychites megalodiscus5 sites
- Girtypecten sublaqueatus5 sites
- Leiophyllites suessi5 sites
- Norites gondola5 sites
- Praepinacoceras damesi5 sites
- Ptychites opulentus5 sites
- Atractites boeckhi4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Pleuronautilus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Pleuronautilus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pleuronautilus 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPleuronautilidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Mojsisovics 1882