Helictites geniculatus

Helictites geniculatus

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
HelictitesPBDB
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 4.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 215.38 Mya and 211.18 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215.9 Mya210.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Helictites geniculatus 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

3 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.

Helictites geniculatus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Helictites geniculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Helictites geniculatus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Helictites geniculatus

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hauer 1855)