Pterosirenites

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SirenitinaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 215.38 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 17 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic227–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences226–226 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences225–225 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences224–224 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences222–222 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences221–221 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences219–219 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences218–218 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences216–216 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227.8 Mya214.9 Mya

17 occurrences of Pterosirenites 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

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

4 formations

De Geerdalen — 76.68°N, 25.43°EPardonet — 55.72°N, 122.87°WPardonet — 56.06°N, 123.02°WKaradan — 70.50°N, 127.97°EBaldonnel — 59.08°N, 125.46°W

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The named rock units Pterosirenites 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.

Pterosirenites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pterosirenites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pterosirenites, 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

8 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Pterosirenites 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 itSirenitinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tozer 1980