Ptychites stachei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychitesPBDB
- 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 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ptychites stachei on record, most of them in the Middle 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- Middle 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 Ptychites stachei 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.
Ptychites stachei and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Ptychites stachei and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Beyrichites yuati2 sites
- Germanonautilus2 sites
- Paraceratites trinodosus2 sites
- Parapopanoceras wapii2 sites
- Ceratites petersi1 site
- Claraia aurita1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Daonella rudis1 site
- Discoptychites megalodiscus1 site
- Eumorphotis hinnitidea1 site
- Hungarites1 site
- Longobardites maramuniensis1 site
- Paraceratites rothi1 site
- Pleuronautilus mosis1 site
- Ptychites gibbus1 site
- Semiornites cordevolicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ptychites stachei, 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
3 references- Marine Triassic molluscs of Australia and Papua New Guinea1
- Middle and Upper Triassic Mollusca from Yuat River, eastern New Guinea1
- Die Cephalopoden der Mediterranen Triasprovinz1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ptychites stachei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ptychites stachei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPtychites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Mojsisovics 1882