Dactyloteuthis wrighti
No picture of Dactyloteuthis wrighti 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 Dactyloteuthis wrighti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DactyloteuthisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 182.9 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dactyloteuthis wrighti 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
2 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.
Dactyloteuthis wrighti and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Dactyloteuthis wrighti and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Acrocoelites2 sites
- Acrocoelites levidensis2 sites
- Acrocoelites riegrafi2 sites
- Actinopterygii2 sites
- Catacoeloceras crassum2 sites
- Eoscyllium duffini2 sites
- Lenticulina2 sites
- Leptolepis2 sites
- Acrocoelites vulgaris1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Catacoeloceras raquinianum1 site
- Dactyloteuthis digitalis1 site
- Dactyloteuthis irregularis1 site
- Dactyloteuthis semistriata1 site
- Dapediidae1 site
- Foraminifera1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Haugia variabilis1 site
- Hildoceras bifrons1 site
- Hildoceras semipolitum1 site
- Jurascyllium magnum1 site
- Jurobatos1 site
- Lytoceras1 site
- Palaeobrachaelurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dactyloteuthis wrighti, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Dactyloteuthis wrighti 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 Dactyloteuthis wrighti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dactyloteuthis wrighti 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 itDactyloteuthis through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppel 1856)