Puzosia quenstedti

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PuzosiaPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
8 occurrences of Puzosia quenstedti 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
8 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Puzosia quenstedti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Puzosia quenstedti and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Puzosia quenstedti and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Douvilleiceras mammillatum4 sites
- Cymatoceras sakalavum3 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum3 sites
- Douvilleiceras inaequinodum3 sites
- Perissoptera3 sites
- Beudanticeras beudanti2 sites
- Discoides2 sites
- Douvilleiceras2 sites
- Hyposalenia2 sites
- Hysteroceras choffati2 sites
- Hysteroceras orbignyi2 sites
- Hysteroceras subbinum2 sites
- Hysteroceras varicosum2 sites
- Neithea quinquecostata2 sites
- Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae2 sites
- Plicatula2 sites
- Semisolarium2 sites
- Uhligella balmensis2 sites
- Aconeceras1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Aioloceras besairiei1 site
- Ammonoidea1 site
- Anagaudryceras1 site
- Anisoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Puzosia quenstedti, 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
6 references- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires3
- Late Albian ammonites from Koracica (Kosmaj Mountain, central Serbia) and their biostratigraphic implications1
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
- Renz, 19821
- Nouvelles données sur l'Albien de la Chartreuse et du Vercors1
- The Vernay Collection of Cretaceous (Albian) ammonites from Angola1
Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Puzosia quenstedti
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Puzosia quenstedti 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 itPuzosia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Parona and Bonarelli 1897)