Emilites incertus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EmilitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Emilites incertus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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 Emilites incertus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Emilites incertus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Emilites incertus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Boesites texanus2 sites
- Agathiceras frechi1 site
- Aristoceras1 site
- Cardiella sulcata1 site
- Glaphyrites1 site
- Glaphyrites modestus1 site
- Mapesites chautauquaensis1 site
- Marathonites jpsmithi1 site
- Marathonites vidriensis1 site
- Neoaganides grahamensis1 site
- Neodimorphoceras texanum1 site
- Pennoceras1 site
- Pseudaktubites1 site
- Pseudorthoceras knoxense1 site
- Schistoceras1 site
- Schistoceras missouriense1 site
- Streptognathodus1 site
- Uddenites schucherti1 site
- Uddenoceras1 site
- Vidrioceras conlini1 site
- Vidrioceras irregulare1 site
- Vidrioceras uddeni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Emilites incertus, 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
4 references- Mapesites; a new Upper Pennsylvanian (lower Virgilian) ammonoid from Kansas1
- The upper Paleozoic (Pennsylvanian-Permian) ammonoid Emilites1
- Permian ammonoids of the Guadalupe Mountain region and adjacent area1
- The Permo-Carboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains, west Texas, and their stratigraphic significance1
Each of the 4 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 Emilites incertus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Emilites incertus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Emilites incertus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itEmilites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Böse 1919)