Esfahanites armatus

Esfahanites armatus

Korn, D., Hairapetian, V., Ghaderi, A., Leda, L., Schobben, M., & Akbari, A. (2021). The Changhsingian (Late Permian)… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
EsfahanitesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 2.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254.64 Mya251.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Esfahanites armatus 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

4 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

1 formation

Hambast — 31.56°N, 52.44°E

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The named rock units Esfahanites armatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Esfahanites armatus and its relatives

Permian

Where Esfahanites armatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Esfahanites armatus, 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

1 reference

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

Media content1

Picture of Esfahanites armatus

Credit
Korn, D., Hairapetian, V., Ghaderi, A., Leda, L., Schobben, M., & Akbari, A. (2021). The Changhsingian (Late Permian)…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Esfahanites armatus 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 itEsfahanites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korn and Hairapetian 2021