Megaphyllites insectus

No picture of Megaphyllites insectus 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 Megaphyllites insectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegaphyllitesPBDB
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 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 20 of 20 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 20 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences222–222 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 1 occurrence205–204 Mya — about 2 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 2 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 2 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences215.38 Mya205.7 Mya227.8 Mya200.9 Mya

20 occurrences of Megaphyllites insectus on record, most of them in the Late 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

20 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

5 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 — 47.59°N, 13.85°EKhodzin — 43.85°N, 40.62°EKhodzin — 44.11°N, 40.47°EKhodzin — 44.06°N, 40.42°EIgrimyuz — 38.28°N, 73.85°EIgrimyuz — 37.72°N, 74.54°EZlambach — 47.65°N, 13.67°EZlambach — 47.63°N, 13.64°EDachstein — 46.40°N, 14.51°E

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The named rock units Megaphyllites insectus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megaphyllites insectus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Megaphyllites insectus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Megaphyllites insectus, 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

8 references

Each of the 20 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

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No picture of Megaphyllites insectus 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 Megaphyllites insectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megaphyllites insectus 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 itMegaphyllites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Mojsisovics 1873)