Alurites postcostatus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AluritesPBDB
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 500 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 321.8 Mya and 321.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous322–322 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences322.3 Mya320.8 Mya

5 occurrences of Alurites postcostatus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

5 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.

Alurites postcostatus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Alurites postcostatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Alurites postcostatus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Alurites postcostatus 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itAlurites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978