Joannites
Searched as Joannites trilabiatus anatolica. The Paleobiology Database treats Joannites as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- JoannitidaePBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 244.4 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Joannites 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 occurrencesThese 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.
Joannites and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Joannites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
879 taxa- Lobites ellipticus24 sites
- Zestoceras lorigae20 sites
- Lecanites glaucus15 sites
- Zestoceras15 sites
- Trachyceras muensteri14 sites
- Trachyceras13 sites
- Megaphyllites jarbas12 sites
- Trematoceras elegans11 sites
- Monophyllites wengensis10 sites
- Orthoceratoidea9 sites
- Protrachyceras archelaus9 sites
- Frankites regoledanus8 sites
- Proarcestes gaytani8 sites
- Sageceras haidingeri8 sites
- Trachyceras aon8 sites
- Daonella lommeli7 sites
- Mojsvarites agenor7 sites
- Pompeckjites layeri7 sites
- Zestoceras barwicki7 sites
- Daxatina laubei6 sites
- Simonyceras simonyi6 sites
- Anolcites5 sites
- Atractites ausseeanus5 sites
- Clionitites5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Joannites, 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 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Joannites
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Joannites 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 itJoannitidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1879