Frankites

Frankites is an extinct genus of cephalopods from the Triassic period included in the Trachyceratidae, a family of mostly evolute ammonites, coiled so as all whorls are showing, and commonly ornamented with flexious, tuberculate ribs. Related genera include Anolcites, Daxatina, and Trachyceras.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnolcitinaePBDB
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 least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 78 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 29 of 78 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 49 of 78 occurrencesLate Triassic248–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 3 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 3 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 4 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 5 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 5 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 5 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 9 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 10 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 10 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 10 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 10 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241.464 Mya237 Mya247.5 Mya226.8 Mya

78 occurrences of Frankites on record. 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

78 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

17 formations

San Cassian — 46.51°N, 11.86°ESan Cassian — 46.64°N, 11.84°EToad — 58.63°N, 123.70°WToad — 58.46°N, 124.36°WToad — 56.91°N, 123.42°WToad — 56.84°N, 123.42°WToad — 59.27°N, 125.38°WToad — 59.26°N, 125.35°WToad — 58.34°N, 124.37°WToad — 57.10°N, 123.28°WToad — 56.67°N, 123.28°WLiard — 56.08°N, 122.87°WLiard — 58.65°N, 124.33°WLiard — 59.28°N, 125.28°WSan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°EHong Hoi — 18.67°N, 99.92°EHong Hoi — 18.30°N, 99.73°ELanmu — 24.92°N, 106.40°ESulphur Mountain — 55.32°N, 122.23°WAugusta Mountain — 39.61°N, 117.50°WWengen — 46.55°N, 11.87°EWengen — 46.59°N, 11.74°ETelong — 4.85°N, 102.20°ETarasci — 37.40°N, 31.85°ELa Valle — 46.53°N, 11.42°EGejiu — 24.98°N, 104.49°EDoi Chang — 18.30°N, 99.73°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ESemanggol — 5.58°N, 100.74°EMuschelkalk — 45.94°N, 10.63°E

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The named rock units Frankites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Frankites, 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

19 references

Each of the 78 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. 7 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Frankites 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tozer 1971