Stenarcestes subumbilicatus

Stenarcestes subumbilicatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StenarcestesPBDB
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 9.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 211.18 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 8 of 8 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211.7 Mya200.9 Mya

8 occurrences of Stenarcestes subumbilicatus 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

8 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

2 formations

Halstatt — 47.66°N, 13.65°EHalstatt — 47.65°N, 13.72°EHalstatt — 47.53°N, 13.52°EHalstatt — 47.60°N, 13.75°EZlambach — 47.65°N, 13.67°E

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The named rock units Stenarcestes subumbilicatus 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.

Stenarcestes subumbilicatus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Stenarcestes subumbilicatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Stenarcestes subumbilicatus, 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

2 references

Each of the 8 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 Stenarcestes subumbilicatus

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 itStenarcestes through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bronn 1846)