Balatonites

Balatonites is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the ceratitid family Balatonitidae. There are at least four known species: B. balatonicus, B. oyama, B. shoshonensis, and B. zitteli.

Balatonites

A. Swoboda, nach der Natur gezeichnet und lithographiert (drawn from nature and lithographed) · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BalatonitidaePBDB
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 least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 266 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 264 of 266 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 266 occurrencesLate Triassic251–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 5 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 6 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 6 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 102 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 119 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 12 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 12 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–240 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248.6 Mya241.464 Mya251.3 Mya226.8 Mya

266 occurrences of Balatonites 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

266 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.

Found in

32 formations

Felsoörs — 46.95°N, 17.70°EFelsoörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EFelsõörs — 46.92°N, 17.82°EFelsõörs — 46.89°N, 17.63°EGutenstein — 47.68°N, 14.73°EBulog — 43.98°N, 18.66°EBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.85°N, 18.48°EFavret — 39.86°N, 117.50°WFavret — 40.07°N, 117.58°WAngolo — 46.00°N, 10.17°ERa'af — 30.43°N, 34.73°EFelsõörs Limestone — 46.88°N, 17.60°EZamostie Limestone — 48.83°N, 19.45°EBanna — 24.58°N, 106.89°EDosso dei Morti — 45.99°N, 10.61°EHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EPlattenkalk — 46.03°N, 10.15°EXinyuan — 25.00°N, 107.00°EBaifeng — 24.83°N, 106.75°EDong Trau — 19.50°N, 105.00°EChau Thoi — 11.50°N, 106.50°EKarazin — 42.93°N, 131.92°EDont — 46.72°N, 12.05°EWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°ERifu — 38.43°N, 141.37°EQuy Lang — 19.48°N, 105.40°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.40°N, 72.15°E

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The named rock units Balatonites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balatonites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Balatonites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

532 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 155 sites for Balatonites, 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

40 references

Each of the 266 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. 28 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 Balatonites

Credit
A. Swoboda, nach der Natur gezeichnet und lithographiert (drawn from nature and lithographed)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Balatonites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1879