Anasibirites
Anasibirites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopod from the lower upper Smithian Wasatchites distractus Zone.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrionitidaePBDB
- 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 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
140 occurrences of Anasibirites 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
140 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
20 formations
- Zhitkov Formation18
- Upper Ceratite Limestone Formation18
- Thaynes Formation12
- Taho Formation11
- Helongshan Formation7
- Sinbad Formation6
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The named rock units Anasibirites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anasibirites and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Anasibirites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
239 taxa- Hemiprionites typus17 sites
- Hemiprionites14 sites
- Hemiprionites walcotti13 sites
- Owenites koeneni13 sites
- Pseudosageceras multilobatum12 sites
- Wasatchites perrini11 sites
- Churkites syaskoi9 sites
- Submeekoceras subhydaspis9 sites
- Arctoprionites ovalis8 sites
- Juvenites8 sites
- Arctoceras septentrionale7 sites
- Prionites subtuberculatus7 sites
- Wasatchites7 sites
- Anawasatchites vlasovi6 sites
- Arctoprionites resseri6 sites
- Brayardites involutus6 sites
- Dieneroceras dieneri6 sites
- Gurleyites6 sites
- Meekoceras6 sites
- Pseudosageceras6 sites
- Xenoceltites subvariocostatus6 sites
- Anawasatchites specious5 sites
- Arctoprionites subcristatum5 sites
- Mianwaliites zimini5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Anasibirites, 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
38 references- Lower Triassic ammonoids of North America12
- Smithian ammonoid faunas from Utah: implications for Early Triassic biostratigraphy, correlation and basinal paleogeography11
- The Triassic stratigraphy and ammonite fauna of Japan11
- Fossils from the Ceratite Formation11
- Late Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Anasibirites nevolini zone of South Primorye, Russian far east10
- Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi (South China): taxonomy and biochronology10
- Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Salt Range, Pakistan6
- Latest Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid assemblages in Utah (western USA basin) and their implications for regional biostratigraphy, biogeography and placement of the Smithian/Spathian boundary5
- Triassic Ammonoid succession in South Primorye: 1. Lower Olenekian Hedenstroemia bosphorensis and Anasibirites nevolini Zones5
- Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas5
- New data on the systematic composition of Early Triassic ammonoids from the Shimanskyites shimanskyi Zone of the Kamenushka River Basin, South Primorye, and their phylogenetic and stratigraphic significance4
- Stratigraphic Subdivisions of the Lower Triassic of South Primorye Region, Article 3: First Findings of Euflemingites prynadai and Shimanskyites shimanskyi (Ammonoidea) in the SMID Section4
Each of the 140 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. 26 further references are not listed. 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 Anasibirites
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anasibirites 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.
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 itPrionitidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mojsisovics 1896)