Erycites

Erycites

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ErycitinaePBDB
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 least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 182.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 28 of 95 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 66 of 95 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 95 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous184–182 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 5 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 11 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 12 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 37 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 23 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 4 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174.7 Mya119.57 Mya184 Mya112 Mya

95 occurrences of Erycites on record, most of them in the Middle 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

95 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

7 formations

Tölgyhát — 47.70°N, 18.47°ESubbetic Basin — 37.59°N, 3.21°WKisgerecse — 47.70°N, 18.43°EKisgerecse — 47.70°N, 18.47°EKingak Shale — 69.55°N, 144.78°WKingak — 68.60°N, 138.30°WTanohata — 39.93°N, 141.94°EInferior Oolite — 50.74°N, 2.80°W

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The named rock units Erycites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Erycites and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Erycites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

120 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Erycites, 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

16 references

Each of the 95 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Erycites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Erycites 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 itErycitinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.