Discotropites sandlingensis
No picture of Discotropites sandlingensis 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 Discotropites sandlingensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscotropitesPBDB
- 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 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Discotropites sandlingensis 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
17 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
6 formations
- Ludington Formation3
- Open Bay Formation2
- Hosselkus Formation1
- Quatsino Limestone Formation1
- Dachstein Limestone Formation1
- King Salmon Formation1
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The named rock units Discotropites sandlingensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Discotropites sandlingensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Discotropites sandlingensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Halobia superba5 sites
- Arcestes4 sites
- Spirogmoceras shastense4 sites
- Tropites dilleri4 sites
- Pleurotropites gabbi3 sites
- Astarte2 sites
- Clionitites2 sites
- Gymnotropites americanus2 sites
- Hannaoceras2 sites
- Indonesites sphaericus2 sites
- Orthoceratoidea2 sites
- Paratropites2 sites
- Paratropites sellai2 sites
- Pleurotropites gracilis2 sites
- Sagenites (Trachysagenites) herbichi2 sites
- Trachystenoceras gabbi2 sites
- Tropites2 sites
- Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis1 site
- Arcestes (Proarcestes) traski1 site
- Arcestes decipiens1 site
- Arcestes tacitus1 site
- Arcestes tomostomus1 site
- Arpadites kingi1 site
- Atractites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Discotropites sandlingensis, 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
7 references- Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas6
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska5
- Emergent basalt and submergent carbonate-clastic sequences including the Upper Triassic Dilleri and Welleri Zones on Vancouver Island2
- The Triassic of Indochina Peninsula and its interregional correlation1
- Triassische Megalodontaceae - Entwicklung, Stratigraphie und Palaontologie1
- Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America1
- The Triassic cephalopod genera of America1
Each of the 17 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 content0
No picture of Discotropites sandlingensis 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 Discotropites sandlingensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discotropites sandlingensis 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 itDiscotropites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hauer 1849)