Cosmonautilus shastensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CosmonautilusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 233.6 Mya and 227.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cosmonautilus shastensis on record, most of them in the Late 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
1 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cosmonautilus shastensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cosmonautilus shastensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Cosmonautilus shastensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Bacchites hyatti1 site
- Calliconites drakei1 site
- Choristoceras klamathense1 site
- Dictyoconites americanus1 site
- Discotropites mojsvarensis1 site
- Discotropites smithi1 site
- Gonionotites northi1 site
- Gryponautilus cooperi1 site
- Halobia gigantea1 site
- Jovites pacificus1 site
- Juvavites (Anatomites) intermittens1 site
- Juvavites (Anatomites) konnincki1 site
- Juvavites (Anatomites) mendenhalli1 site
- Juvavites (Anatomites) obsoletus1 site
- Metasibirites frechi1 site
- Myophoria brockensis1 site
- Mytilus ursensis1 site
- Patella stuarti1 site
- Proclydonautilus squawensis1 site
- Proclydonautilus ursensis1 site
- Trachysagenites erinaceus1 site
- Tropites brockensis1 site
- Tropites reticulatus1 site
- Tropites ursensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cosmonautilus shastensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cosmonautilus shastensis 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 Cosmonautilus shastensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cosmonautilus shastensis 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 itCosmonautilus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1927