Monophyllites wengensis

Monophyllites wengensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MonophyllitesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phylloceratida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Phylloceratida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Phylloceratida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 98 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 93 of 98 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 4 of 98 occurrencesLate Triassic251–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 4 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 5 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 5 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 8 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 13 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 13 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 11 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 10 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 8 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 5 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 5 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248.6 Mya237 Mya251.3 Mya226.8 Mya

98 occurrences of Monophyllites wengensis 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

98 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

16 formations

Esino — 45.92°N, 9.70°EEsino — 45.98°N, 9.36°EBulog — 43.98°N, 18.66°EBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.86°N, 18.45°EDunnatető Limestone — 48.48°N, 20.74°EWetterstein — 47.30°N, 11.37°EBuchenstein — 46.59°N, 11.74°EBuchenstein — 46.55°N, 11.62°ERifu — 38.35°N, 141.03°EWengen — 46.65°N, 11.93°EWengen — 46.50°N, 11.76°EWengen — 46.55°N, 11.87°EHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EBulog — 43.16°N, 19.06°EAcheshbok — 44.06°N, 40.56°EBabuk — 44.06°N, 40.56°EMarmolata — 46.45°N, 11.87°ECephalopod Limestone — 10.19°S, 123.54°ECassian — 46.56°N, 11.56°EGutenstein — 47.67°N, 14.71°E

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The named rock units Monophyllites wengensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monophyllites wengensis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Monophyllites wengensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

650 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Monophyllites wengensis, 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

26 references

Each of the 98 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. 14 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

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Picture of Monophyllites wengensis

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No 3D scan of Monophyllites wengensis 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. (Klipstein 1843)