Balatonites balatonicus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BalatonitesPBDB
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 5.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 61 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 61 of 61 occurrencesMiddle Triassic247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 9 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 12 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 12 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 12 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 8 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences247.5 Mya241 Mya

61 occurrences of Balatonites balatonicus 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

61 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

11 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°EFelsõörs Limestone — 46.88°N, 17.60°EHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°EDong Trau — 19.50°N, 105.00°EChau Thoi — 11.50°N, 106.50°EDont — 46.72°N, 12.05°EChaqupu — 30.00°N, 90.76°ETelong — 4.85°N, 102.30°ERa'af — 30.43°N, 34.73°E

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The named rock units Balatonites balatonicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balatonites balatonicus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Balatonites balatonicus, 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

13 references

Each of the 61 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Balatonites balatonicus 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 Balatonites balatonicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Balatonites balatonicus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itBalatonites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mojsisovics 1873)