Wasatchites perrini

Wasatchites perrini

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WasatchitesPBDB
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 least 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 247 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 20 of 21 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 21 occurrencesMiddle Triassic252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248.6 Mya247 Mya252.4 Mya241 Mya

21 occurrences of Wasatchites perrini 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

21 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

4 formations

Thaynes — 39.41°N, 113.69°WThaynes — 40.77°N, 111.83°WThaynes — 41.06°N, 111.57°WToad — 59.39°N, 124.89°WSinbad — 37.67°N, 113.03°WSinbad — 37.53°N, 113.17°WSinbad — 38.27°N, 111.39°WSinbad — 39.00°N, 110.68°WBlind Fiord — 80.55°N, 95.38°W

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The named rock units Wasatchites perrini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Wasatchites perrini and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Wasatchites perrini and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Wasatchites perrini, 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

8 references

Each of the 21 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 Wasatchites perrini

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Wasatchites perrini was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itWasatchites through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mathews 1929)