Atractites

Atractites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 168.2 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 144 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 8 of 144 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 70 of 144 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 36 of 144 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 29 of 144 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 144 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic266–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences250–246 Mya — about 11 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 27 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 30 occurrences240–236 Mya — about 10 occurrences236–233 Mya — about 10 occurrences233–230 Mya — about 6 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 4 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences220–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences210–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–203 Mya — about 3 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 6 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 2 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–190 Mya — about 7 occurrences190–186 Mya — about 7 occurrences186–183 Mya — about 5 occurrences183–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259.857 Mya184.2 Mya266 Mya166 Mya

144 occurrences of Atractites 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

144 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

27 formations

Bulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.86°N, 18.45°EHalstatt — 47.60°N, 13.88°EHalstatt — 47.65°N, 13.70°EHalstatt — 46.51°N, 14.71°EHalstatt — 47.56°N, 13.63°EPrida — 40.28°N, 118.08°WWetterstein — 47.32°N, 11.41°EWetterstein — 47.38°N, 11.74°EFernie — 53.12°N, 119.17°WFernie — 53.52°N, 118.13°WFernie — 52.47°N, 116.12°WFernie — 51.80°N, 115.65°WZlambach — 47.63°N, 13.64°EZlambach — 47.65°N, 13.67°EMarmolata — 46.45°N, 11.87°EEsino — 45.98°N, 9.36°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.81°N, 127.24°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.72°N, 127.49°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.74°N, 127.82°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EPastanakhskaya/Ystannakhskaya — 72.85°N, 120.98°EFavret — 40.05°N, 117.54°WKasimlar — 37.55°N, 31.30°ECephalopod Limestone — 10.30°S, 123.71°ECephalopod Limestone — 9.83°S, 124.57°EKamenushka — 43.59°N, 132.17°ESchnoll — 47.00°N, 13.00°EMaude — 53.20°N, 132.05°WDunnatető Limestone — 48.48°N, 20.74°EHosselkus — 40.94°N, 122.13°WCassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EKarazin — 43.00°N, 131.92°ELatemar — 46.35°N, 11.63°EHallstatt — 43.84°N, 18.43°ESandy Limestone — 30.14°N, 80.98°E

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The named rock units Atractites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Atractites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Atractites, 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

40 references

Each of the 144 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. 28 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 Atractites

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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guembel 1861