Caenisites pulchellus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaenisitesPBDB
- 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 most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Caenisites pulchellus on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
4 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Caenisites pulchellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Caenisites pulchellus and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Caenisites pulchellus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Arnioceras2 sites
- Caenisites brooki2 sites
- Caenisites turneri2 sites
- Arnioceras ceratitoides1 site
- Arnioceras nevadanum1 site
- Asteroceras1 site
- Coroniceras (Paracoroniceras) mutabile1 site
- Epophioceras bochardi1 site
- Hypasteroceras montii1 site
- Lytotropites fucinii1 site
- Microderoceras birchi1 site
- Microderoceras septigerum1 site
- Nevadaphyllites1 site
- Partschiceras striatocostatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Caenisites pulchellus, 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
2 references- Late early Sinemurian (early Jurassic) Ammonites from the Taseko Lakes map area, British Columbia3
- Les ammonites du Sinémurien de Mandelot (Côte-D'or, France). Approches biostratigraphique, morphologique et ontogénétique [The ammonites from the Sinemurian of Mandelot (Côte-d'Or, France). Biostratigraphic, morphologic and ontogenetic approaches]1
Each of the 4 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 Caenisites pulchellus 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 Caenisites pulchellus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caenisites pulchellus 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 itCaenisites through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guerin-Franiatte 1966