Dimorphites selectus
No picture of Dimorphites selectus 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 Dimorphites selectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimorphitesPBDB
- 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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 233.6 Mya and 215.38 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dimorphites selectus 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Dimorphites selectus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dimorphites selectus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Dimorphites selectus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Anatibetites magnus1 site
- Arcticopora abnorme1 site
- Canadospira1 site
- Cassianella1 site
- Catella1 site
- Clionitites1 site
- Creniepis sp.1 site
- Cubanothyris1 site
- Discotropites plinii1 site
- Entolium1 site
- Euryalox1 site
- Guembelites jandianus1 site
- Halobia1 site
- Halobia fallax1 site
- Halobia rugosa1 site
- Halobia superbescens1 site
- Juvavites1 site
- Koninckina minor1 site
- Laballa suessi1 site
- Loxonema1 site
- Modiolus frugi1 site
- Myophoria1 site
- Myophoria (Elegantinia) venusta1 site
- Neoretzia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dimorphites selectus, 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
2 references- Carnian (Upper Triassic) sponge mounds of the northwestern Sichuan Basin, China: Stratigraphy, facies and paleoecology1
- Obertriassische Ammonoideen aus dem Zentralnepalesischen Himalaya (Gebiet von Jomsom) [Upper Triassic ammonoids from the central Nepalese Himalaya (Jomsom area)]1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dimorphites selectus 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 Dimorphites selectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dimorphites selectus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDimorphites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mojsisovics 1893)