Pseudosirenites elegans
No picture of Pseudosirenites elegans 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 Pseudosirenites elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudosirenitesPBDB
- 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 most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pseudosirenites elegans on record, most of them in the Late 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
3 occurrences- Late 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 Pseudosirenites elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudosirenites elegans and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pseudosirenites elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Alloclionites ares1 site
- Amarassites laevicostatus1 site
- Amarassites parmenides1 site
- Anatomites1 site
- Anatropites1 site
- Arcestes1 site
- Argosirenites dianae1 site
- Argosirenites trachyceratoides1 site
- Atractites1 site
- Beyrichites1 site
- Bihatites bihatiensis1 site
- Cladiscites beyrichi1 site
- Cladiscites quadratus1 site
- Clionitites1 site
- Dimorphites1 site
- Discophyllites1 site
- Discophyllites ebneri1 site
- Distichites harpalos1 site
- Distichites kmetyi1 site
- Distichites leptacanthus1 site
- Distichites megacanthus1 site
- Distichites mesacanthus1 site
- Episculites eunapii1 site
- Episculites teres1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pseudosirenites elegans, 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
3 references- Ammonitenfauna und Stratigraphie im höheren Nor (Alaun, Trias) der Tethys aufgrund neuer Untersuchungen in Timor1
- Palaeontological identifications, in (Heim & Gansser) Central Himalaya: Geologic Observations of the Swiss Expedition 19361
- Upper Triassic Cephalopoda faunae of the Himalaya1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Pseudosirenites elegans 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 Pseudosirenites elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudosirenites elegans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPseudosirenites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Mojsisovics 1896)