Molengraaffites
No picture of Molengraaffites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Molengraaffites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HaloritidaePBDB
- 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 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Molengraaffites 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
2 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Molengraaffites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Molengraaffites and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Molengraaffites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Anatomites1 site
- Anatropites1 site
- Arcestes1 site
- Atractites1 site
- Beyrichites1 site
- Cladiscites quadratus1 site
- Clionitites1 site
- Dimorphites1 site
- Discophyllites1 site
- Discophyllites ebneri1 site
- Gonarcestes piae1 site
- Gymnites1 site
- Halobia styriaca1 site
- Halorites1 site
- Hannaoceras1 site
- Hauerites rarestriatus1 site
- Megaphyllites1 site
- Metacarnites1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Paragymnites sakuntala1 site
- Paratibetites1 site
- Paratibetites adolphi1 site
- Pinacoceras1 site
- Placites polydactylus oldhami1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Molengraaffites, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Molengraaffites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Molengraaffites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Molengraaffites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHaloritidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Welter 1914