Griesbachites

Griesbachites is a genus of Late Triassic ceratitids included in the Haloritidae, with widespread distribution from the Alps through the Himalaya and Timur to British Columbia.

Griesbachites

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
JuvavitidaePBDB
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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 215.38 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 30 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 29 of 30 occurrencesLate Triassic248–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 2 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 2 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 2 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 1 occurrence241.464 Mya227.3 Mya247.6 Mya214.7 Mya

30 occurrences of Griesbachites 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

30 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

5 formations

Pardonet — 56.12°N, 122.88°WPardonet — 56.05°N, 123.02°WPardonet — 56.06°N, 123.02°WPardonet — 55.72°N, 122.87°WMukut — 28.78°N, 83.73°EEkrasar — 36.43°N, 51.90°EEkrasar — 36.78°N, 50.54°EBaldonnel — 59.08°N, 125.46°WKalapani — 30.14°N, 80.98°E

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The named rock units Griesbachites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Griesbachites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Griesbachites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Griesbachites, 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

6 references

Each of the 30 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 Griesbachites

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

No 3D scan of Griesbachites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itJuvavitidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Mojsisovics 1896)