Gymnotropites americanus
No picture of Gymnotropites americanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Gymnotropites americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GymnotropitesPBDB
- 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 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Gymnotropites americanus 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
4 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
2 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Gymnotropites americanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gymnotropites americanus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Gymnotropites americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Clionites (Shastites) whitneyi2 sites
- Discotropites sandlingensis2 sites
- Halobia superba2 sites
- Leconteia californica2 sites
- Sagenites (Trachysagenites) herbichi2 sites
- Tropites dilleri2 sites
- Arcestes1 site
- Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis1 site
- Arcestes (Proarcestes) traski1 site
- Arpadites kingi1 site
- Bacchites bacchus1 site
- Capillirhynchia solitaria1 site
- Capulus silverthorni1 site
- Clionites (Californites) careyi1 site
- Clionites (Californites) merriami1 site
- Clionites (Neanites) californicus1 site
- Clionites (Neanites) minutus1 site
- Clionites (Neanites) osmonti1 site
- Clionites (Shastites) compactus1 site
- Clionites (Shastites) compressus1 site
- Clionites (Stantonites) evolutus1 site
- Clionites (Stantonites) rugosus1 site
- Clionites (Traskites) americanus1 site
- Clionites (Traskites) fairbanksi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gymnotropites americanus, 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
4 references- Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas1
- Emergent basalt and submergent carbonate-clastic sequences including the Upper Triassic Dilleri and Welleri Zones on Vancouver Island1
- Geology and Paleontology of the southwest quarter of the Big Bend Quadrangle, Shasta County, California1
- The Triassic cephalopod genera of America1
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. 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 Gymnotropites americanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Gymnotropites americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gymnotropites americanus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGymnotropites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt and Smith 1905)