Punctaptychus punctatus

No picture of Punctaptychus punctatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Punctaptychus punctatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
ammonoid aptychusPBDB
Sits inside
PunctaptychusPBDB
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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic203–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174.7 Mya149.2 Mya203 Mya144 Mya

3 occurrences of Punctaptychus punctatus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

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.

Punctaptychus punctatus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Punctaptychus punctatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Punctaptychus punctatus, 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

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 Punctaptychus punctatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Punctaptychus punctatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Punctaptychus punctatus 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 itPunctaptychus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Voltz 1837)