Billingsites

Searched as Billingsites sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Billingsites as the accepted name.

Billingsites

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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 206 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 243.43 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Ordovician — about 19 of 53 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 53 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 53 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 53 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 53 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 53 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 34 of 53 occurrences462–454 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences454–447 Mya — about 13 occurrences447–439 Mya — about 5 occurrences245–237 Mya — about 34 occurrences450.2 Mya243.43 Mya462 Mya237 Mya

53 occurrences of Billingsites 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

53 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

12 formations

Caution Creek — 57.97°N, 94.87°WCaution Creek — 58.55°N, 95.13°WPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 56.50°N, 94.25°WBønsnes — 60.06°N, 10.21°EBønsnes — 66.77°N, 13.47°EVaureal — 49.67°N, 62.92°WCatheys — 35.50°N, 86.50°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.93°WAmadjuak — 65.25°N, 73.17°WAkpatok — 65.25°N, 73.17°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.71°N, 81.94°WKilley Bridge — 54.60°N, 6.87°WBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EGeorgian Bay — 45.75°N, 81.60°W

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The named rock units Billingsites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Billingsites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

297 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Billingsites, 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

11 references

Each of the 53 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

Media content1

Picture of Billingsites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Billingsites 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 itBeyrichitinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Monnet and Bucher 2005