Proptychites

Proptychites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProptychitidaePBDB
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 300 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 250.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 247 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 162 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 162 of 162 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 162 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 10 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 10 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 10 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 32 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 68 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 11 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence250–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence250–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence250–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence250–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence250–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–248 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.1 Mya – 250.8 Mya252.4 Mya246.5 Mya

162 occurrences of Proptychites on record, most of them in the Early 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

162 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

21 formations

Wordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 74.03°N, 21.60°WWordie Creek — 74.00°N, 21.50°WWordie Creek — 73.99°N, 21.42°WMikin — 31.96°N, 78.03°EMikin — 32.05°N, 78.09°EMikin — 32.15°N, 78.24°EMikin — 32.15°N, 78.24°ECeratite Marls — 32.50°N, 72.20°ECeratite Marls — 32.40°N, 72.15°ECeratite Marls — 32.52°N, 72.10°ECeratite Marls — 32.65°N, 71.79°ECeratite Marls — 32.50°N, 71.94°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.96°N, 71.20°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.65°N, 71.79°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.53°N, 72.20°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.41°N, 72.10°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.55°N, 71.80°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.50°N, 71.94°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.45°N, 72.03°EKangshare — 28.27°N, 86.97°EKangshare — 28.66°N, 85.82°EKangshare — 28.57°N, 85.96°EKangshare — 28.31°N, 86.83°EBlind Fiord — 79.50°N, 90.00°WBlind Fiord — 80.93°N, 88.75°WBlind Fiord — 80.54°N, 95.37°WCandelaria — 38.14°N, 118.06°WToad — 56.74°N, 123.48°WToad — 56.87°N, 123.53°WGrayling — 58.37°N, 124.33°WGrayling — 58.73°N, 124.49°WRuiping — 30.09°N, 108.61°EVikinghogda — 78.30°N, 16.71°ELazurnaya — 43.17°N, 132.00°ECeratite Sandstone — 32.65°N, 71.79°ECeratite Sandstone — 32.52°N, 72.10°EMirkin — 31.96°N, 78.03°EKhunamuh — 34.09°N, 74.98°EIvishak — 69.30°N, 146.37°WZhitkov — 42.93°N, 132.43°ECeratites Sandstone — 32.51°N, 71.93°EDaye — 26.51°N, 106.87°EYekchan — 61.90°N, 144.93°EDinwoody — 41.57°N, 114.14°W

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The named rock units Proptychites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proptychites and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Proptychites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 140 sites for Proptychites, 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

33 references

Each of the 162 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. 21 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 Proptychites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Proptychites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itProptychitidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1895