Protacanthodiscus andreaei

No picture of Protacanthodiscus andreaei 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 Protacanthodiscus andreaei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtacanthodiscusPBDB
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 2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 145.06 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 9 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145.56 Mya142.6 Mya

9 occurrences of Protacanthodiscus andreaei 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

9 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

2 formations

Brechas de Buenavista — 4.13°N, 73.68°WChia Gara — 37.01°N, 43.40°E

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The named rock units Protacanthodiscus andreaei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protacanthodiscus andreaei and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Protacanthodiscus andreaei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Protacanthodiscus andreaei, 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

Each of the 9 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 Protacanthodiscus andreaei 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 Protacanthodiscus andreaei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protacanthodiscus andreaei 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 itProtacanthodiscus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kilian 1889)