Epigymnites

No picture of Epigymnites 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 Epigymnites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GymnitidaePBDB
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 least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 221 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 217 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 62 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 60 of 62 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 62 occurrencesLate Triassic248–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 13 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 13 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 12 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 10 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243.43 Mya221 Mya247.6 Mya216.4 Mya

62 occurrences of Epigymnites on record, most of them in the Middle 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

62 occurrences

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

12 formations

Esino — 45.92°N, 9.70°EHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°EPrida — 40.27°N, 118.09°WVászoly — 46.96°N, 17.71°EWengen — 46.50°N, 11.76°EWengen — 46.57°N, 11.75°EBesano — 45.91°N, 8.95°ERifu — 38.35°N, 141.03°EMarmolada — 46.48°N, 12.06°EMarmolata — 46.45°N, 11.87°ELatemar — 46.38°N, 11.57°ESciliar — 46.45°N, 11.86°EBulog — 43.16°N, 19.06°E

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The named rock units Epigymnites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epigymnites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Epigymnites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

432 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Epigymnites, 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

20 references

Each of the 62 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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

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No picture of Epigymnites 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 Epigymnites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Epigymnites 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 itGymnitidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Diener 1916