Ussurites

Ussurites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
UssuritidaePBDB
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 5.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 239.48 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 17 of 72 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 55 of 72 occurrencesMiddle Triassic249–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 4 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 4 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 3 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 3 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–243 Mya — about 4 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 4 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 4 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 4 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 4 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 3 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247 Mya241.464 Mya249.1 Mya239 Mya

72 occurrences of Ussurites on record, most of them in the Middle 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

72 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

13 formations

Thaynes — 39.33°N, 113.70°WThaynes — 42.23°N, 111.43°WThaynes — 42.12°N, 111.24°WThaynes — 42.11°N, 111.26°WThaynes — 42.74°N, 111.11°WToad — 58.65°N, 124.25°WToad — 58.70°N, 124.33°WToad — 58.55°N, 123.89°WToad — 59.37°N, 125.00°WToad — 58.54°N, 123.98°WToad — 59.38°N, 124.88°WPrida — 40.53°N, 118.13°WPrida — 40.51°N, 118.15°WGulangdi — 35.30°N, 99.56°EGulangdi — 35.47°N, 99.70°EBotneheia — 78.22°N, 17.51°EBotneheia — 78.34°N, 16.42°EZhouchongcun — 32.00°N, 119.00°EMoenkopi — 37.13°N, 113.76°WJunzihe — 38.14°N, 99.12°EBlind Fiord — 80.63°N, 87.44°WUlakhan-Krest — 71.70°N, 127.80°EAlam — 32.99°N, 53.69°ETobin — 40.02°N, 117.54°WCaerace — 45.05°N, 29.06°E

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The named rock units Ussurites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ussurites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Ussurites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

362 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Ussurites, 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

25 references

Each of the 72 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. 13 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 Ussurites

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ussurites 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 itUssuritidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt 1900)