Beyrichites

Beyrichites is an extinct genus in the ammonoids cephalopod, order Ceratitida from the Lower and Middle Triassic of southern Europe, Asia, and western North America.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BeyrichitinaePBDB
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 3 of 124 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 119 of 124 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 124 occurrencesLate Triassic249–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–246 Mya — about 5 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 10 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 72 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 25 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 8 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247 Mya237 Mya249.5 Mya204.8 Mya

124 occurrences of Beyrichites 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

124 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

22 formations

Felsoörs — 46.95°N, 17.70°EFelsoörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EFelsoörs — 47.02°N, 17.95°EPrezzo — 45.99°N, 10.61°EFelsõörs — 46.92°N, 17.82°EYuat — 5.01°S, 143.98°EWetterstein — 47.30°N, 11.37°EGutenstein — 47.68°N, 14.73°EFelsöörs — 47.06°N, 17.99°ECalcare di Dosso dei Morti — 45.00°N, 10.00°ECalcare di Angolo — 45.00°N, 10.00°EFelsõörs Limestone — 46.88°N, 17.60°EBanna — 24.58°N, 106.89°EAngolo — 45.76°N, 10.15°EVászoly — 46.91°N, 17.68°EFelsoors — 47.02°N, 17.94°EHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°EDoi Chang — 18.30°N, 99.73°EBotneheia — 78.27°N, 16.86°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EMuschelkalk — 50.75°N, 20.48°EMuschelkalk — 50.96°N, 11.61°ESandy Limestone — 30.14°N, 80.98°ERifu — 38.35°N, 141.03°E

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The named rock units Beyrichites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Beyrichites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

525 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Beyrichites, 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

29 references

Each of the 124 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. 17 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Beyrichites 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.

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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What may have been alongside itBeyrichitinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1895