Owenites

Owenites is a genus of a ceratite ammonoid that lived during the Early Triassic.

Owenites

The Field Museum of Natural History · 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
ParanannitidaePBDB
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 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 0 of 192 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 192 of 192 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 192 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 14 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 17 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 17 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 17 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 17 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 17 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 17 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 17 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 17 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 17 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 17 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 6 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252.4 Mya246.5 Mya

192 occurrences of Owenites 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

192 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

20 formations

Kangshare — 28.66°N, 85.82°EKangshare — 28.57°N, 85.96°EKangshare — 28.52°N, 86.69°EThaynes — 41.53°N, 114.13°WThaynes — 41.54°N, 114.17°WThaynes — 41.55°N, 114.14°WThaynes — 39.41°N, 113.69°WThaynes — 38.67°N, 112.52°WThaynes — 38.23°N, 112.89°WThaynes — 41.51°N, 114.27°WBac Thuy — 21.75°N, 106.50°EBac Thuy — 21.72°N, 106.67°EBac Thuy — 21.84°N, 106.73°EZhitkov — 43.30°N, 132.45°EZhitkov — 42.92°N, 132.30°EZhitkov — 42.93°N, 132.42°EZhitkov — 43.32°N, 132.17°ETulong — 28.45°N, 86.13°EMikin — 31.95°N, 78.02°EMikin — 32.03°N, 78.08°ELuolou — 24.65°N, 106.83°ELuolou — 24.95°N, 106.45°ELuolou — 25.14°N, 107.35°EKamenushka — 43.59°N, 132.17°EUnion Wash — 36.70°N, 118.03°WTobizin — 43.05°N, 131.92°ETobizin — 42.92°N, 131.90°EYatyrgvarta — 43.85°N, 40.62°EYatyrgvarta — 43.86°N, 40.58°EIwai — 35.00°N, 139.00°EGua Musang — 4.92°N, 102.00°ELazurnaya — 43.00°N, 131.92°EQinglong — 30.45°N, 117.54°EAlikagarskaya — 38.38°N, 70.20°EKhunamuh — 34.09°N, 74.98°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.66°N, 71.80°EHelongshan — 31.64°N, 117.85°ESinbad — 37.53°N, 113.17°W

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The named rock units Owenites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 78 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Owenites and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Owenites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

333 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 157 sites for Owenites, 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

40 references

Each of the 192 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Owenites

Source
GBIF
Credit
The Field Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt and Smith 1905