Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProarcestesPBDB
- 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 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis on record, most of them in the Late 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
4 occurrences- Late 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis 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.
Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Halobia austriaca2 sites
- Juvavites (Anatomites) externiplicatus2 sites
- Juvavites knowltoni2 sites
- Margaritropites johnsoni2 sites
- Alisporites1 site
- Anatropites hauchecornei1 site
- Anoplophora shastensis1 site
- Arcestes (Proarcestes) carpenteri1 site
- Arcestes (Proarcestes) whitneyi1 site
- Archosauria1 site
- Avicula soperi1 site
- Cardinia gleimi1 site
- Cardita jenkinsi1 site
- Cassianella shastensis1 site
- Celtites steindachneri1 site
- Clionites (Shastites) whitneyi1 site
- Clionitites1 site
- Dimyodon storrsi1 site
- Discophyllites1 site
- Discophyllites patens1 site
- Discotropites davisi1 site
- Discotropites laurae1 site
- Discotropites lineatus1 site
- Discotropites mojsvarensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis, 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
3 references- Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America2
- Description, phylogenetic analysis and taphonomy of a new Thalattosaur from the Brisbois member of the Vester Formation (Carnian/Norian) of central Oregon1
- Geology and Paleontology of the southwest quarter of the Big Bend Quadrangle, Shasta County, California1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProarcestes through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1927