Columbites

Columbites

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ColumbitidaePBDB
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 3.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 74 of 74 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 74 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–248 Mya — about 7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 7 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 7 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 7 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 7 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 6 occurrences251.3 Mya246.5 Mya

74 occurrences of Columbites on record, most of them in the Early 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

74 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

Thaynes — 42.23°N, 111.44°WThaynes — 42.14°N, 111.22°WThaynes — 42.15°N, 111.24°WBac Thuy — 21.75°N, 106.50°EBac Thuy — 21.85°N, 106.74°EBac Thuy — 21.72°N, 106.67°EBac Thuy — 21.84°N, 106.73°EZhitkov — 42.92°N, 132.30°EZhitkov — 43.03°N, 131.93°EZhitkov — 42.93°N, 131.92°ETartalinskaya — 44.36°N, 51.40°EQinglong — 30.45°N, 117.54°EQinglong — 31.64°N, 117.45°EQinglong — 32.13°N, 119.36°EMarmarotrapeza — 38.42°N, 26.00°EMianwali — 32.65°N, 71.79°EBiandanshan — 31.64°N, 117.85°EAlam — 32.99°N, 53.69°ETyur-Upa — 44.37°N, 51.40°ENanlinghu — 31.66°N, 117.81°E

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The named rock units Columbites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Columbites and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Columbites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Columbites, 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

27 references

Each of the 74 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. 15 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 Columbites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Columbites 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itColumbitidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt and Smith 1905