Truempyceras compressum

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TruempycerasPBDB
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 2.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 248.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 10 of 10 occurrencesEarly Triassic251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251.3 Mya248.1 Mya

10 occurrences of Truempyceras compressum on record, most of them in the Early 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

10 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

2 formations

Kangshare — 28.66°N, 85.82°EKangshare — 28.57°N, 85.96°EMikin — 31.95°N, 78.02°EMikin — 32.43°N, 77.75°E

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The named rock units Truempyceras compressum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Truempyceras compressum and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Truempyceras compressum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Truempyceras compressum, 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

Each of the 10 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 Truempyceras compressum 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 Truempyceras compressum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Truempyceras compressum 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 itTruempyceras through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brühwiler et al. 2012