Sphingites

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphingitidaePBDB
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 9.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 215.38 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 3 of 18 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 15 of 18 occurrencesLate Triassic245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 3 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–232 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237 Mya227.3 Mya245 Mya214.8 Mya

18 occurrences of Sphingites 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

18 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

3 formations

Halstatt — 47.60°N, 13.88°EHalstatt — 47.56°N, 13.63°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ESina — 36.00°N, 60.84°E

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The named rock units Sphingites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphingites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Sphingites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

474 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Sphingites, 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

7 references

Each of the 18 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 Sphingites 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 Sphingites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphingites 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 itSphingitidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1879