Alpinites

Alpinites is a genus belonging to the Discoclymeniinae subfamily, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiscoclymeniinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 9.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 368.5 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 11 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369 Mya358.4 Mya

11 occurrences of Alpinites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

11 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

1 formation

Manticoceras Limestone — 50.74°N, 20.59°E

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The named rock units Alpinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alpinites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Alpinites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Alpinites, 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

2 references

Each of the 11 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 Alpinites 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 Alpinites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Alpinites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDiscoclymeniinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bogoslovsky 1971