Balatonites egregius
No picture of Balatonites egregius was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 egregius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
35 occurrences of Balatonites egregius 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
35 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Balatonites egregius 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.
Balatonites egregius and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Balatonites egregius and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Balatonites balatonicus13 sites
- Norites gondola11 sites
- Norites10 sites
- Proavites8 sites
- Balatonites zitteli6 sites
- Coenothyris vulgaris6 sites
- Discoptychites6 sites
- Mentzelia mentzeli6 sites
- Norites falcatus6 sites
- Beyrichites5 sites
- Acrochordiceras carolinae3 sites
- Angustothyris angustaeformis3 sites
- Balatonites ottonis3 sites
- Ismidites marmarensis3 sites
- Koeveskallina koeveskalyensis3 sites
- Proavites hueffeli3 sites
- Volirhynchia tommasi3 sites
- Acrochordiceras2 sites
- Coenothyris kraffti2 sites
- Costirhynchopsis mentzeli2 sites
- Koeveskallina paleotypus2 sites
- Ptychites domatus2 sites
- Schreyerites binodosus2 sites
- Sulcatinella incrassata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Balatonites egregius, 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
6 references- The Pelsonian ammonoid fauna of the Balaton Highland16
- Die Cephalopodenfauna der Reiflinger Kalke. II. Abtheilung: Die Fauna des Fundortes “Rahnbauerkogel”14
- Morphometric methods in determination of ammonite species, exemplified through Balatonites shells (Middle Triassic)2
- New Aspects of Triassic Ammonoid Biostratigraphy, Paleoenvironments and Paleobiogeography in Southern Israel (Sepharadic Province)1
- Die Leitfossilien der Werfener Schichten und Nachträge zur Fauna des Muschelkalkes der Cassianer und Raibler Schichten sowie des Rhaet und des Dachsteindolomites (Hauptdolomit) [The main fossils of the Werfen Formation]1
- Die Cephalopodenfauna der Reiflinger Kalke1
Each of the 35 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 Balatonites egregius was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 egregius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balatonites egregius 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. Arthaber 1896