Beyrichites affinis
No picture of Beyrichites affinis 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 Beyrichites affinis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BeyrichitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 248.6 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Beyrichites affinis 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Beyrichites affinis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Beyrichites affinis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Beyrichites affinis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Arctomeekoceras rotundatum1 site
- Ceratites1 site
- Daonella1 site
- Dinarites1 site
- Eumorphotis1 site
- Frechites laqueatus1 site
- Gymnotoceras falcatum1 site
- Istreites nanuk1 site
- Meekoceras1 site
- Nordophiceras karpinskii1 site
- Nordophiceras schmidti1 site
- Olenekoceras schrenki1 site
- Olenikites1 site
- Parapopanoceras1 site
- Phaedrysmocheilus subaratus1 site
- Popanoceras1 site
- Ptychites1 site
- Subolenekites altus1 site
- Timoceras glacialis1 site
- Unionites1 site
- Xenodiscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Beyrichites affinis, 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
3 references- The Triassic stratigraphy of Svalbard1
- Middle Triassic ammonites from Peary Land1
- Arktische Triasfaunen. Beiträge zur palaeontologischen Charakteristik der arktisch-pacifischen Triasprovinz1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Beyrichites affinis 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 Beyrichites affinis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Beyrichites affinis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBeyrichites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mojsisovics 1886)