Hastites

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

Hastites

Geni · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
HastitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 155 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 39 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 23 of 39 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 39 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 14 of 39 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 39 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 39 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–191 Mya — about 4 occurrences191–186 Mya — about 12 occurrences186–180 Mya — about 4 occurrences180–174 Mya — about 3 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–157 Mya — about 11 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences192.9 Mya37.71 Mya203 Mya31 Mya

39 occurrences of Hastites on record, most of them in the Early 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

39 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

9 formations

Marnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°EJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EBelemnite Marls — 50.72°N, 2.85°WBelemnite Marls — 50.73°N, 2.87°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WCouches à Spérites — 47.98°N, 4.85°ECharmouth Mudstone — 50.72°N, 2.85°WBraunjura alpha & Braunjura beta — 48.90°N, 7.67°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WMiddle Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Hastites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hastites and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Hastites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

522 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Hastites, 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 39 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 Hastites

Credit
Geni
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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 itHastitidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meyer-Eymar 1883