Metadinarites desertorus

Metadinarites desertorus

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
MetadinaritesPBDB
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 2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 243.43 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243.93 Mya240.96 Mya

3 occurrences of Metadinarites desertorus 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

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.

Found in

1 formation

Prida — 40.28°N, 118.08°W

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The named rock units Metadinarites desertorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metadinarites desertorus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Metadinarites desertorus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Metadinarites desertorus, 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

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 Metadinarites desertorus

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

No 3D scan of Metadinarites desertorus 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 itMetadinarites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1914)