Atractites solidus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtractitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 243.43 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Atractites solidus on record, most of them in the Middle 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
5 occurrences- Middle 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
1 formation
- Prida Formation · Star Peak Group4
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The named rock units Atractites solidus 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.
Atractites solidus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Atractites solidus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Eutomoceras dunni5 sites
- Tropigastrites louderbacki5 sites
- Frechites nevadanus4 sites
- Aplococeras smithi3 sites
- Parafrechites meeki2 sites
- Aplococeras vogdesi1 site
- Daonella americana1 site
- Daonella sturi1 site
- Grypoceras whitneyi1 site
- Gymnotoceras blakei1 site
- Longobardites parvus1 site
- Marcouxites spinifer1 site
- Parafrechites dunni1 site
- Paranautilus smithi1 site
- Proarcestes balfouri1 site
- Sturia japonica1 site
- Tozerites gemmellaroi1 site
- Trematoceras elegans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Atractites solidus, 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- Middle Triassic Molluscan Fossils of Biostratigraphic Significance from the Humboldt Range, Northwestern Nevada4
- The Middle Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Atractites solidus 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 Atractites solidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Atractites solidus 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 itAtractites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1914