Vishnuites
Searched as Vishnuites decipiens acuta. The Paleobiology Database treats Vishnuites as the accepted name.
via iDigBio · CC BY-NC-ND · via iDigBio. 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
- OphiceratidaePBDB
- 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 802 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 251.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Vishnuites 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Vishnuites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vishnuites and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Vishnuites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
133 taxa- Jieshaniceras guizhouense9 sites
- Claraia8 sites
- Ophiceras7 sites
- Ussuridiscus varaha7 sites
- Otoceras woodwardi6 sites
- Xiaohenautilus huananensis6 sites
- Koninckites5 sites
- Xiaohenautilus sinensis5 sites
- Hubeitoceras yanjiaensis4 sites
- Lichuanorelloides lichuanensis4 sites
- Ophiceras commune4 sites
- Discophiceras wordiei3 sites
- Glyptophiceras3 sites
- Hypophiceras gracile3 sites
- Lissorhynchia3 sites
- Microconchus valvatus3 sites
- Naticopsis3 sites
- Nodosinelloides3 sites
- Ophiceras (Discophiceras) kochi3 sites
- Promyalina schamarae3 sites
- Ambites discus2 sites
- Claraia stachei2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Vishnuites, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Vishnuites
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Vishnuites 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 itOphiceratidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Diener 1897)