Pseudosaynella

Pseudosaynella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudosaynellinaePBDB
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 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 17 of 17 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.9 Mya112.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Pseudosaynella on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

17 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

9 formations

Atherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WForcall — 40.54°N, 0.18°EDierks Limestone — 34.10°N, 94.02°WSanganeh — 37.72°N, 56.32°ESanganeh — 37.72°N, 56.12°ESarcheshmeh — 37.77°N, 56.93°EPine Island Shale — 32.63°N, 93.90°WDierks — 34.07°N, 93.67°WRisan Aneiza — 30.80°N, 33.57°ELes Graous — 43.84°N, 7.08°E

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The named rock units Pseudosaynella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pseudosaynella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pseudosaynella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pseudosaynella, 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

7 references

Each of the 17 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 Pseudosaynella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pseudosaynella 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 itPseudosaynellinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1923