Lituites lituus

Lituites lituus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LituitesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lituitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lituitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 458 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 464.3 Mya to 456.8 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician465–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459.7 Mya458 Mya464.8 Mya456.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Lituites lituus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

5 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

3 formations

Elnes — 57.99°N, 7.60°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EElnes — 59.93°N, 10.70°EVollen — 60.15°N, 10.30°EVyzunai — 55.55°N, 24.10°E

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

Lituites lituus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lituites lituus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lituites lituus, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lituites lituus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Lituites lituus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itLituites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Montfort 1808