Nevadisculites smithi
No picture of Nevadisculites smithi 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 Nevadisculites smithi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NevadisculitesPBDB
- 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 970 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 244.4 Mya and 243.43 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Nevadisculites smithi 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
6 occurrences- Middle 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
- Favret Formation · Star Peak Group5
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The named rock units Nevadisculites smithi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nevadisculites smithi and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Nevadisculites smithi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Platycuccoceras favretense5 sites
- Nevadisculites taylori4 sites
- Eogymnotoceras thompsoni3 sites
- Acrochordiceras carolinae2 sites
- Nicholsites tozeri2 sites
- Pseudodanubites nicholsi2 sites
- Augustaceras escheri1 site
- Favreticeras ransomei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Nevadisculites smithi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 Nevadisculites smithi 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 Nevadisculites smithi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nevadisculites smithi 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 itNevadisculites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bucher 1988