Dictyoconites

Dictyoconites is a genus of belemnite, an extinct group of cephalopods.

Dictyoconites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyoconitidaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 4 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 28 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 21 of 28 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 3 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 4 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 2 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 2 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–225 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247 Mya227.3 Mya249.5 Mya200.5 Mya

28 occurrences of Dictyoconites on record, most of them in the Late 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

28 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

5 formations

Halstatt — 47.60°N, 13.88°EHalstatt — 47.65°N, 13.70°EHalstatt — 47.56°N, 13.63°EHalstatt — 47.63°N, 13.69°EHalstatt — 47.65°N, 13.63°EHosselkus — 40.84°N, 122.10°WHosselkus — 40.78°N, 122.22°WCephalopod Limestone — 10.30°S, 123.71°ECephalopod Limestone — 9.83°S, 124.57°EAntimonio — 30.72°N, 112.55°WGabbs — 38.50°N, 118.08°W

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The named rock units Dictyoconites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyoconites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Dictyoconites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

386 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Dictyoconites, 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

9 references

Each of the 28 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 content1

Picture of Dictyoconites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itDictyoconitidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Mojsisovics 1902