Adrianites

Adrianites is an extinct genus of the Adrianitidae family. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopodes, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

Adrianites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AdrianitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 22 of 22 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 2 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 6 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 5 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283.3 Mya259.857 Mya294.4 Mya251.1 Mya

22 occurrences of Adrianites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

22 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

10 formations

Hamrat Duru — 23.41°N, 57.40°ETae Wei — 9.77°S, 124.55°EPhosphoria — 44.00°N, 114.00°WHorsefeed — 59.10°N, 132.95°WMarta — 44.80°N, 34.08°EAl Jil — 23.09°N, 58.32°EHoso-o — 39.00°N, 141.53°EFanjiatun — 43.80°N, 125.69°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WProductus Shales — 30.25°N, 80.96°E

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The named rock units Adrianites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adrianites and its relatives

Permian

Where Adrianites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

467 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Adrianites, 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

16 references

Each of the 22 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. 4 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 Adrianites

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 of Adrianites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAdrianitinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gemmellaro 1887