Ctenobactrites

Ctenobactrites is an extinct genus of cephalopods that lived from the Carboniferous to the Permian. It contains seven valid species which have been found in Europe, Asia, and North America. It was originally assigned to the order Bactritida, but has been proposed to be a potential member of the order Mixosiphonata.

No picture of Ctenobactrites 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 Ctenobactrites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BactritidaePBDB
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 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 326.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 7 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–325 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–285 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences326.9 Mya266.9 Mya361 Mya262 Mya

7 occurrences of Ctenobactrites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

7 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

Fayetteville — 35.84°N, 92.57°WFayetteville — 35.92°N, 94.20°WKizidjilginskii — 37.62°N, 74.86°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°E

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The named rock units Ctenobactrites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ctenobactrites and its relatives

Permian

Where Ctenobactrites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ctenobactrites, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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. 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 Ctenobactrites 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 Ctenobactrites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ctenobactrites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBactritidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shimanskiy 1951