Lanceoptychites indistinctus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LanceoptychitesPBDB
- 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 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lanceoptychites indistinctus 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
4 occurrences- Middle 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
3 formations
- Dunnatető Limestone Formation1
- Schreyeralm Formation1
- Bulog Formation · Bulog Group1
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The named rock units Lanceoptychites indistinctus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lanceoptychites indistinctus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Lanceoptychites indistinctus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Flexoptychites acutus4 sites
- Discoptychites megalodiscus3 sites
- Flexoptychites flexuosus3 sites
- Gymnites incultus3 sites
- Monophyllites wengensis3 sites
- Ptychites oppeli3 sites
- Trematoceras elegans3 sites
- Arthaberites alexandrae2 sites
- Danubites floriani2 sites
- Grypoceras quadrangulum2 sites
- Megaphyllites sandalinus2 sites
- Nautilus tintoretti2 sites
- Paraceratites elegans2 sites
- Paraceratites trinodosus2 sites
- Pleuronautilus mosis2 sites
- Ptychites eusomus2 sites
- Acrochordiceras carolinae1 site
- Apleuroceras1 site
- Arcestes extralabiatus1 site
- Asseretoceras camunum1 site
- Atractites1 site
- Atractites boeckhi1 site
- Atractites obeliscus1 site
- Atractites secundus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lanceoptychites indistinctus, 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
4 references- Pelsonian and Illyrian (Anisian, Middle Triassic) ammonoid faunas from the Bulog Group of Kovčezi, Durmitor Mountain, Dinarides (northern Montenegro)1
- Late Anisian Ammonoidea from Szár-hegy (Rudabánya Mts); a Dinaric-type fauna from North Hungary1
- Taxonomy, stratigraphy and phylogeny of the new genus Lanceoptychites (Ammonoidea, Anisian)1
- Die Cephalopoden der Mediterranen Triasprovinz1
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 Lanceoptychites indistinctus 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 Lanceoptychites indistinctus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lanceoptychites indistinctus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLanceoptychites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Mojsisovics 1882)