Flexoptychites acutus

Flexoptychites acutus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FlexoptychitesPBDB
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 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 239.48 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 65 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 65 of 65 occurrencesMiddle Triassic247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–243 Mya — about 6 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 8 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 8 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 8 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 8 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 8 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 8 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243.43 Mya241.464 Mya247.5 Mya239 Mya

65 occurrences of Flexoptychites acutus 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

65 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

14 formations

Vászoly — 46.91°N, 17.68°EVászoly — 46.96°N, 17.71°EVászoly — 47.07°N, 17.97°EVászoly — 46.92°N, 17.81°EEsino — 45.92°N, 9.70°EBesano — 45.91°N, 8.95°EBulog — 43.98°N, 18.66°EBulog — 43.86°N, 18.45°EDorgicse — 46.93°N, 17.78°EDunnatető Limestone — 48.48°N, 20.74°EFelsöörs — 47.06°N, 17.99°EHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°EWetterstein — 47.32°N, 11.41°EPrezzo Limestone — 45.82°N, 10.47°EBuchenstein — 47.06°N, 17.99°EFelsőörs — 47.24°N, 18.28°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EBulog — 43.16°N, 19.06°E

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The named rock units Flexoptychites acutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Flexoptychites acutus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Flexoptychites acutus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

299 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Flexoptychites acutus, 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

12 references

Each of the 65 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 content1

Picture of Flexoptychites acutus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Flexoptychites acutus 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 itFlexoptychites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Mojsisovics 1882)