Metasibirites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetasibiritidaePBDB
- 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 least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 233.6 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
20 occurrences of Metasibirites 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
20 occurrences- Late 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
6 formations
- Hosselkus Formation11
- Payandé Formation3
- Pardonet Formation2
- Kamishak Formation1
- Chambara Formation · Pucara Group1
- Kuti Formation1
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The named rock units Metasibirites 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.
Metasibirites and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Metasibirites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
121 taxa- Discophyllites2 sites
- Discotropites smithi2 sites
- Halobia gigantea2 sites
- Juvavites (Anatomites) intermittens2 sites
- Monotis (Entomonotis) subcircularis2 sites
- Paraguembelites ludingtoni2 sites
- Rhabdoceras suessi2 sites
- Alloclionites woodwardi1 site
- Anatomites1 site
- Arcestes (Proarcestes) pacificus1 site
- Arcestes (Proarcestes) whitneyi1 site
- Bacchites hyatti1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Calliconites drakei1 site
- Cardiomorpha digglesi1 site
- Choristoceras klamathense1 site
- Choristoceras nobile1 site
- Clionitites1 site
- Cosmonautilus dilleri1 site
- Cosmonautilus hersheyi1 site
- Cosmonautilus pacificus1 site
- Cosmonautilus shastensis1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Metasibirites, 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
9 references- Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America8
- Das präkretazische Mesozoikum von Kolumbien [The Pre-Cretaceous Mesozoic from Colombia]3
- The Triassic cephalopod genera of America3
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Upper Triassic Kamishak Formation in the Puale Bay-Cape Kekurnoi-Alinchak Bay area, Karluk C-4 and C-5 quadrangle, Alaska Peninsula1
- Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas1
- Stratigraphie und Ammonitenfauna der Pucara-Gruppe (Obertrias-Unterjura) von Nord-Peru [Stratigraphy and ammonite fauna of the Pucara Group (Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic) in northern Peru]1
- Ammonitenfauna und Stratigraphie im höheren Nor (Alaun, Trias) der Tethys aufgrund neuer Untersuchungen in Timor1
- Latest Triassic ammonoid faunas and biochronology, western Canada1
- Palaeontological identifications, in (Heim & Gansser) Central Himalaya: Geologic Observations of the Swiss Expedition 19361
Each of the 20 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
Media content1
Picture of Metasibirites
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itMetasibiritidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mojsisovics 1896)