Kymatites yanjiaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KymatitesPBDB
- 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 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 250.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Kymatites yanjiaensis on record, most of them in the Early 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
4 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Kymatites yanjiaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kymatites yanjiaensis and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Kymatites yanjiaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Jieshaniceras guizhouense3 sites
- Gyrophiceras subplicatum2 sites
- Koninckites2 sites
- Koninckites vetustus2 sites
- Ambites discus1 site
- Claraia griesbachi1 site
- Hubeitoceras yanjiaensis1 site
- Laevorhynchia tenuis1 site
- Lingula fuyuanensis1 site
- Nanningites tientungense1 site
- Proptychites candidus1 site
- Submeekoceras hsuyuchieni1 site
- Ussuridiscus varaha1 site
- Vishnuites pralambha1 site
- Xenodiscoides beatus1 site
- Xiaohenautilus huananensis1 site
- Xiaohenautilus sinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Kymatites yanjiaensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Early Induan (Early Triassic) cephalopods from the Daye Formation at Guiding, Guizhou Province, south China3
- Early Triassic cephalopods from Lichuan, western Hubei1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Kymatites yanjiaensis 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 Kymatites yanjiaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kymatites yanjiaensis 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 itKymatites through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Xu 1988