Mullericeras spitiense

Mullericeras spitiense

Bésairie, Henri-Michel Edouard · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MullericerasPBDB
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 300 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.1 Mya and 250.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 13 of 13 occurrencesEarly Triassic251–251 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences251.6 Mya250.3 Mya

13 occurrences of Mullericeras spitiense on record, most of them in the Early 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

13 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

Mikin — 31.97°N, 78.02°EMikin — 32.05°N, 78.09°EMikin — 32.15°N, 78.24°ECandelaria — 38.14°N, 118.06°WCeratite Marls — 32.66°N, 71.79°EMirkin — 31.96°N, 78.03°EKangshare — 28.57°N, 85.96°E

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The named rock units Mullericeras spitiense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mullericeras spitiense and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Mullericeras spitiense and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Mullericeras spitiense, 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

5 references

Each of the 13 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Mullericeras spitiense

Source
GBIF
Credit
Bésairie, Henri-Michel Edouard
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mullericeras spitiense 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 itMullericeras through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Krafft 1909)