Bactrites smithianus

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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 least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 326.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 323.6 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous336–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences330.3 Mya326.9 Mya336.4 Mya323.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Bactrites smithianus 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

3 formations

Imo — 35.80°N, 92.77°WMoorefield — 35.77°N, 91.70°WCaney — 34.33°N, 96.41°W

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

Bactrites smithianus and its relatives

Carboniferous

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

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bactrites smithianus, 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 smithianus 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 smithianus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bactrites smithianus 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. Girty 1909