Paranannites
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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.
122 occurrences of Paranannites 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
122 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
12 formations
- Thaynes Formation25
- Mikin Formation10
- Bac Thuy Formation8
- Kangshare Formation7
- Luolou Formation5
- Marmarotrapeza Formation4
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The named rock units Paranannites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paranannites and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Paranannites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
241 taxa- Aspenites acutus34 sites
- Pseudosageceras multilobatum26 sites
- Owenites koeneni23 sites
- Pseudaspidites muthianus18 sites
- Meekoceras gracilitatis16 sites
- Jinyaceras bellum15 sites
- Flemingites rursiradiatus14 sites
- Mesohedenstroemia kwangsiana14 sites
- Wyomingites aplanatus14 sites
- Pseudaspenites layeriformis13 sites
- Dieneroceras tientungense12 sites
- Hebeisenites varians12 sites
- Lanceolites compactus12 sites
- Dieneroceras dieneri11 sites
- Juvenites septentrionalis11 sites
- Preflorianites radians11 sites
- Submeekoceras hsuyuchieni11 sites
- Submeekoceras mushbachanum11 sites
- Euflemingites cirratus9 sites
- Lingyunites discoides9 sites
- Juvenites8 sites
- Anaflemingites russelli7 sites
- Inyoites oweni7 sites
- Juvenites kraffti7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Paranannites, 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
24 references- Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi (South China): taxonomy and biochronology24
- Lower Triassic ammonoids of North America12
- New Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from Crittenden Springs, Elko County, Nevada: implications for taxonomy, biostratigraphy and biogeography9
- Olenekian (Early Triassic) stratigraphy and fossil assemblages in northeastern Vietnam8
- Lower Triassic Ammonoids from Western Kwangsi, China8
- High-resolution Early Triassic ammonoid biostratigraphy of South Tibet, China and implications for global correlations7
- Cephalopods7
- Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from exotic blocks from Oman: taxonomy and biochronology7
- Middle and Late Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from Spiti, India7
- Upper Olenekian (Spathian) ammonoids from Chios (Lower Triassic, Greece): Taxonomy and stratigraphic position4
- Triassic ammonoids from Jabal Safra and Wadi Alwa, Oman, and their significance4
- Ammonites from the Meekoceras graciliatus zone at Crittenden Spring, Elk County, Nevada4
Each of the 122 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. 12 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 content1
Picture of Paranannites
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Paranannites 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 itParanannitidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt and Smith 1905