Bactrites sempiternus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BactritesPBDB
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 8.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPermian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermian299–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299.4 Mya289.6 Mya

7 occurrences of Bactrites sempiternus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

7 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.

Bactrites sempiternus and its relatives

Permian

Where Bactrites sempiternus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Bactrites sempiternus, 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 7 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

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No picture of Bactrites sempiternus 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 Bactrites sempiternus, 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 itBactrites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shimanskiy 1954