Megaphyllites

Megaphyllites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegaphyllitidaePBDB
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 least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 143 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 85 of 143 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 57 of 143 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 143 occurrencesEarly Jurassic250–248 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 6 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 46 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 15 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 9 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 6 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 7 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 10 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 5 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 3 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 3 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 2 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 2 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 2 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 2 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 2 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 2 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 1 occurrence213–211 Mya — about 1 occurrence211–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 2 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 6 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 6 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247 Mya205.7 Mya250 Mya192 Mya

143 occurrences of Megaphyllites 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

143 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

35 formations

Halstatt — 47.71°N, 13.62°EHalstatt — 47.53°N, 13.52°EHalstatt — 47.56°N, 13.63°EHalstatt — 47.67°N, 13.72°EHalstatt — 47.63°N, 13.69°EHalstatt — 47.60°N, 13.88°EHalstatt — 46.51°N, 14.71°EHalstatt — 46.63°N, 13.68°EHalstatt — 47.59°N, 13.85°EEsino — 45.92°N, 9.70°EEsino — 45.98°N, 9.36°EPrida — 40.49°N, 118.13°WHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°EAcheshbok — 44.01°N, 40.52°EAcheshbok — 44.06°N, 40.56°EFavret — 39.85°N, 117.47°WFavret — 39.13°N, 114.29°WKhodzin — 43.85°N, 40.62°EKhodzin — 44.11°N, 40.47°EKhodzin — 44.06°N, 40.42°EWetterstein — 47.32°N, 11.41°EWetterstein — 47.38°N, 11.74°EBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.86°N, 18.45°EMalotkhach — 44.00°N, 40.50°EMalotkhach — 44.13°N, 40.31°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°EIgrimyuz — 38.28°N, 73.85°EIgrimyuz — 37.72°N, 74.54°EZlambach — 47.65°N, 13.67°EZlambach — 47.63°N, 13.64°EKoessen — 47.72°N, 11.98°ELatemar — 46.35°N, 11.63°ELatemar — 46.38°N, 11.57°EHallstatt — 43.84°N, 18.43°EBulog — 43.16°N, 19.06°ELanmu — 24.92°N, 106.40°EMisfah — 22.00°N, 57.00°EDachstein Limestone — 47.55°N, 18.95°EGulangdi — 35.47°N, 99.70°ESutton — 48.85°N, 124.23°WKasimlar — 37.55°N, 31.30°EDachstein — 46.40°N, 14.51°E

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The named rock units Megaphyllites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megaphyllites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Megaphyllites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,457 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 130 sites for Megaphyllites, 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

42 references

Each of the 143 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. 30 further references are not listed. 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 Megaphyllites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Megaphyllites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1879