Silesites

Searched as Beneckeia. The Paleobiology Database treats Silesites as the accepted name.

No picture of Silesites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Silesites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 138 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 67 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 67 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 19 of 67 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 67 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 67 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 67 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 67 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 46 of 67 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 67 occurrences254–248 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences248–243 Mya — about 16 occurrences243–238 Mya — about 4 occurrences140–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 19 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 18 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences245.19 Mya106.3 Mya254 Mya91 Mya

67 occurrences of Silesites on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

67 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

16 formations

Maiolica — 43.59°N, 12.54°EMaiolica — 45.75°N, 9.48°ERöt — 50.80°N, 13.32°ERöt — 50.78°N, 11.36°ERöt — 50.93°N, 11.59°EDonji Milanovac — 44.53°N, 22.04°EBudden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.56°WTaboulouart — 31.26°N, 9.80°WTaboulouart — 30.87°N, 9.81°WKotick Point — 64.17°S, 57.75°WMuschelkalk — 49.35°N, 8.69°EMuschelkalk — 50.96°N, 11.61°ESan Lucas — 18.53°N, 100.77°WPieniny Limestone — 48.73°N, 17.47°EWhisky Bay — 64.17°S, 57.75°WWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°EPuez — 46.59°N, 11.79°ERöt — 50.67°N, 18.03°ERa'af — 30.43°N, 34.73°EGevanim — 30.60°N, 34.82°ELower Gogolin Beds — 50.23°N, 19.28°E

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The named rock units Silesites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Silesites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Silesites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

166 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Silesites, 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

32 references

Each of the 67 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. 20 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 content0

No picture of Silesites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Silesites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Silesites 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 itSilesitidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Uhlig 1882