Marcouxites spinifer
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarcouxitesPBDB
- 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 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Marcouxites spinifer on record, most of them in the Middle 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
5 occurrences- Middle 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
- Botneheia Formation · Sassendalen Group1
- Bravaisberget Formation · Sassendalen Group1
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The named rock units Marcouxites spinifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Marcouxites spinifer and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Marcouxites spinifer and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Frechites nevadanus3 sites
- Eutomoceras laubei2 sites
- Frechites occidentalis2 sites
- Hollandites japonicus2 sites
- Leptochondria albertii2 sites
- Mysidioptera2 sites
- Tropigastrites2 sites
- Anagymnites1 site
- Aplococeras vogdesi1 site
- Atractites solidus1 site
- Discoceratites semipartitus1 site
- Eutomoceras dunni1 site
- Germanonautilus1 site
- Gymnotoceras mimetus1 site
- Megaceratites subnodosus1 site
- Paraceratites trinodosus1 site
- Parafrechites dunni1 site
- Parafrechites meeki1 site
- Rieppelites cimeganus1 site
- Silberlingitoides cricki1 site
- Tozerites gemmellaroi1 site
- Tropigastrites louderbacki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Marcouxites spinifer, 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
4 references- Stratigraphy and composition of the Mesozoic deposits in central Vestspitsbergen2
- New Middle and Late Anisian (Middle Triassic) Ammonoid Faunas From Northwestern Nevada(USA): Taxonomy and Biochronology1
- Stratigraphical studies on the Triassic vertebrate fossils from Wadi Raman, Israel1
- The Middle Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America1
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. 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 Marcouxites spinifer 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 Marcouxites spinifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Marcouxites spinifer 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 itMarcouxites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1914)