Rhacophyllites

Rhacophyllites

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
DiscophyllitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phylloceratida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Phylloceratida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Phylloceratida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 78 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 73 of 78 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 5 of 78 occurrencesEarly Jurassic242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 2 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 2 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 2 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 2 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 5 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 5 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 5 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 5 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 5 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 5 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 9 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 9 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 4 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence199–197 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233.6 Mya199.5 Mya242 Mya192 Mya

78 occurrences of Rhacophyllites 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

78 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

17 formations

Halstatt — 47.66°N, 13.65°EHalstatt — 47.53°N, 13.52°EHalstatt — 47.56°N, 13.63°EHalstatt — 47.63°N, 13.69°EHalstatt — 47.67°N, 13.10°EHalstatt — 47.60°N, 13.88°EHalstatt — 47.59°N, 13.85°EHalstatt — 47.65°N, 13.63°EZlambach — 47.65°N, 13.67°EZlambach — 47.63°N, 13.64°EZlambach — 47.66°N, 13.65°EGabbs — 38.00°N, 118.00°WGabbs — 38.49°N, 118.08°WIsztimér — 47.18°N, 17.83°EKhodzin — 44.10°N, 40.45°EKhodzin — 43.85°N, 40.62°EGermig — 28.70°N, 86.14°EFernie — 56.03°N, 123.05°WFernie — 56.03°N, 123.04°WPardonet — 56.03°N, 123.08°WIgrimyuz — 38.28°N, 73.85°EIgrimyuz — 37.72°N, 74.54°ENgutunui — 38.30°S, 174.70°EBlaa Mountain — 80.14°N, 86.57°WTyaughton — 51.05°N, 122.96°WParson Bay — 49.86°N, 127.07°WIstyk — 38.02°N, 74.21°EBaijizu — 26.43°N, 99.41°EBouraké — 22.01°S, 166.05°EHallstatt — 47.68°N, 13.07°E

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The named rock units Rhacophyllites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhacophyllites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Rhacophyllites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

410 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Rhacophyllites, 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

Each of the 78 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 Rhacophyllites

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Rhacophyllites 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 itDiscophyllitidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zittel 1884)