Bactrites

Bactrites

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
BactritidaePBDB
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 148 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 108 occurrencesDevonian — about 25 of 108 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 66 of 108 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 17 of 108 occurrencesPermian423–417 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences417–412 Mya — about 2 occurrences412–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–395 Mya — about 1 occurrence395–390 Mya — about 3 occurrences390–384 Mya — about 5 occurrences384–379 Mya — about 2 occurrences379–373 Mya — about 1 occurrence373–367 Mya — about 6 occurrences367–362 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences362–356 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences340–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–329 Mya — about 5 occurrences329–323 Mya — about 11 occurrences323–318 Mya — about 11 occurrences318–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–307 Mya — about 3 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 19 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 15 occurrences295–290 Mya — about 7 occurrences284–279 Mya — about 3 occurrences279–273 Mya — about 3 occurrences273–268 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences268–262 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences262–257 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences413.02 Mya264.28 Mya423 Mya257 Mya

108 occurrences of Bactrites 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

108 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

39 formations

Graham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.19°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.15°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WWitts Springs — 36.19°N, 93.20°WWitts Springs — 35.83°N, 93.13°WWitts Springs — 35.53°N, 92.00°WHale — 36.06°N, 94.15°WHale — 36.02°N, 93.87°WHale — 36.09°N, 94.14°WHale — 35.91°N, 93.94°WHale — 36.17°N, 93.23°WRest Spring — 36.78°N, 117.46°WRest Spring — 36.55°N, 117.81°WRuddell — 35.74°N, 91.64°WKnoppenbiessen — 50.97°N, 7.17°EImo — 35.80°N, 92.77°WCherokee — 38.51°N, 94.00°WOnondaga — 40.43°N, 78.39°WOnondaga — 39.65°N, 78.76°WKwataboahegan — 51.50°N, 81.00°WOmi Limestone — 36.99°N, 137.79°EUyamano — 34.85°N, 133.27°EKochusu — 37.72°N, 74.54°EKizidjilginskii — 37.62°N, 74.86°EMoorefield — 35.76°N, 91.58°WMoorefield — 35.77°N, 91.70°WWissenbach — 50.79°N, 8.32°EPlattensandstein — 51.28°N, 7.18°EStanton — 37.06°N, 95.81°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WThree Forks Shale — 45.91°N, 111.96°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°ESilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°W

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The named rock units Bactrites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bactrites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Bactrites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

890 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Bactrites, 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

33 references

Each of the 108 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. 21 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 Bactrites

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Sandberger 1843