Knightites

Knightites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KnightitinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 38 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 24 of 38 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 14 of 38 occurrencesPermian361–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences355–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 4 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 5 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 3 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 4 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 7 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences296–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences290–287 Mya — about 2 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 2 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 3 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 3 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 1 occurrence351.9 Mya283.3 Mya361 Mya273 Mya

38 occurrences of Knightites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

38 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

16 formations

Wewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WGraham — 33.21°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.14°N, 98.21°WGraham — 33.10°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WClyde — 31.68°N, 99.90°WClyde — 31.68°N, 99.85°WClyde — 31.75°N, 100.00°WClyde — 31.72°N, 99.73°WHueco — 31.12°N, 105.14°WHueco — 32.37°N, 105.94°WLost Branch — 35.94°N, 96.00°WNew Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WYeso — 33.00°N, 106.63°WCathedral Mountain — 30.30°N, 103.30°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WBluff Creek — 31.58°N, 99.23°WDeer Creek — 39.00°N, 95.41°WTalpa — 31.60°N, 99.83°WLueders — 31.77°N, 99.96°WAdmiral — 31.57°N, 99.60°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WMagdalena — 31.95°N, 106.60°W

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The named rock units Knightites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Knightites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Knightites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

510 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Knightites, 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

12 references

Each of the 38 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 Knightites

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Knightites 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 itKnightitinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore 1941