Proarcestes bramantei

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProarcestesPBDB
- 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 least 970 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 243.43 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.
55 occurrences of Proarcestes bramantei 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
55 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Acheshbok Formation2
- Wetterstein Formation2
- Hallstatt Formation1
- Schreyeralm Formation1
- Furkaska Formation1
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The named rock units Proarcestes bramantei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Proarcestes bramantei and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Proarcestes bramantei and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
314 taxa- Acrochordiceras carolinae13 sites
- Gymnotoceras weitschati13 sites
- Billingsites cordeyi12 sites
- Longobardites parvus10 sites
- Longobardites zsigmondyi9 sites
- Dixieceras lawsoni8 sites
- Proarcestes escheri8 sites
- Flexoptychites flexuosus7 sites
- Leiophyllites confucii7 sites
- Ptychites opulentus7 sites
- Discoptychites pauli6 sites
- Jenksites flexicostatus6 sites
- Monophyllites wengensis6 sites
- Paraceratites trinodosus6 sites
- Rieppelites shevyrevi6 sites
- Ussurites arthaberi6 sites
- Austriellula kavakensis5 sites
- Balatonites ottonis5 sites
- Discoptychites megalodiscus5 sites
- Gymnotoceras mimetus5 sites
- Holcorhynchella edhemi5 sites
- Anagymnites4 sites
- Daonella (Arzelella) tyrolensis4 sites
- Flexoptychites acutus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Proarcestes bramantei, 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
10 references- New Middle and Late Anisian (Middle Triassic) Ammonoid Faunas From Northwestern Nevada(USA): Taxonomy and Biochronology32
- Anisian ammonites from Gebze area (Kokaeli Peninsula, Turkey)10
- Die Cephalopoden der Mediterranen Triasprovinz3
- Triassic ammonoids of the northwest Caucasus2
- Eine Fauna des Wettersteinkalkes bei Innsbruck2
- Die Trias von Bithynien (Anatolien)2
- Lithofacies palaeogeography and biostratigraphy of the lowermost horizons of the Middle Triassic Hallstatt Limestones (Argolis Peninsula, Greece)1
- Ammonoids of the Shoshonensis Zone (Middle Anisian, Middle Triassic) from northwestern Nevada (USA)1
- Ammonites, nautiloids and daonelles from the upper subtatric Triassic in the Tatra Mts.1
- The Fauna of the Himalayan Muschelkalk1
Each of the 55 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
Media content1

Picture of Proarcestes bramantei
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Proarcestes bramantei 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 itProarcestes through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mojsisovics 1869)