Alurites
Alurites is a genus belonging to the superfamily Gastrioceratoidea. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.
No picture of Alurites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alurites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ReticuloceratinaePBDB
- 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 most 500 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 321.8 Mya and 321.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Alurites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
15 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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.
Alurites and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Alurites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Proshumardites karpinskii12 sites
- Aenigmatoceras rhipaeum10 sites
- Stenopronorites uralensis8 sites
- Baschkirites planus6 sites
- Ramosites magnus5 sites
- Syngastrioceras supinum5 sites
- Bashkortoceras artum4 sites
- Paraschartymites repens4 sites
- Phillipsoceras alpharhipaeum4 sites
- Schartymites chumazensis4 sites
- Fallacites portentosus3 sites
- Phillipsoceras3 sites
- Reticuloceras3 sites
- Bashkortoceras kugarchense2 sites
- Brevikites densus2 sites
- Phillipsoceras remissum2 sites
- Reticuloceras devium2 sites
- Stenoglaphyrites intraevolutus2 sites
- Surenites vicinus2 sites
- Tectiretites2 sites
- Tectiretites confinis2 sites
- Brevikites inops1 site
- Chumazites alter1 site
- Chumazites primus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Alurites, 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 15 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 content0
No picture of Alurites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alurites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Alurites”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itReticuloceratinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya 1975