Pulchellia

Pulchellia

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PulchelliidaePBDB
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 least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 77 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 77 of 77 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 13 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 14 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 14 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 14 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 14 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 6 occurrences141 Mya125.77 Mya145.6 Mya120.9 Mya

77 occurrences of Pulchellia 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

77 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

6 formations

San Lucas — 18.53°N, 100.77°WTaboulouart — 31.21°N, 7.88°WTaboulouart — 30.87°N, 9.81°WTaboulouart — 30.72°N, 9.80°WTaboulouart — 30.61°N, 9.73°WMaiolica — 43.59°N, 12.54°EMaiolica — 45.75°N, 9.48°ESchrambach — 47.91°N, 14.35°EPaja — 5.63°N, 73.57°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.66°W

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The named rock units Pulchellia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pulchellia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Pulchellia, 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

17 references

Each of the 77 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Pulchellia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Pulchellia 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 itPulchelliidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.