Bactrites gaitherensis

No picture of Bactrites gaitherensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bactrites gaitherensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BactritesPBDB
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 most 4.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 318.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.9 Mya318.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Bactrites gaitherensis 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

5 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

2 formations

Hale — 36.06°N, 94.15°WHale — 36.09°N, 94.14°WHale — 35.91°N, 93.94°WWitts Springs — 36.19°N, 93.20°WWitts Springs — 35.83°N, 93.13°W

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The named rock units Bactrites gaitherensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bactrites gaitherensis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Bactrites gaitherensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bactrites gaitherensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Bactrites gaitherensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bactrites gaitherensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bactrites gaitherensis 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 itBactrites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gordon 1964