Discotropites theron
No picture of Discotropites theron 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 theron, 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 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 233.6 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Discotropites theron 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
13 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Discotropites theron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Discotropites theron and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Discotropites theron and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Goniojuvavites kellyi7 sites
- Hoplotropites auctus3 sites
- Sympolycyclus kellyi3 sites
- Hoplotropites circumspinatus2 sites
- Jovites bosnensis2 sites
- Pamphagosirenites pacificus2 sites
- Paratropites teres2 sites
- Tropites bufonis2 sites
- Discotropites plinii1 site
- Discotropites smithi1 site
- Halobia (Zittelihalobia) ornatissima1 site
- Halobia cordillerana1 site
- Halobia gigantea1 site
- Halobia superba1 site
- Hoplotropites globosus1 site
- Hoplotropites intermedius1 site
- Isocrinus californicus1 site
- Juvavites (Anatomites) damesi1 site
- Juvavites (Anatomites) edgari1 site
- Juvavites (Anatomites) intermittens1 site
- Klamathites1 site
- Klamathites kellyi1 site
- Margaritropites johnsoni1 site
- Metasibirites modestus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Discotropites theron, 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 referencesEach of the 13 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 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 Discotropites theron 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 theron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discotropites theron 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.
Keep going
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. (Dittmar 1866)