Vandaites suttonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VandaitesPBDB
- 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 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Vandaites suttonensis 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
5 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 Vandaites suttonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vandaites suttonensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Vandaites suttonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Rhabdoceras suessi2 sites
- Ampakabastraea cowichanensis1 site
- Cycloceltites cowichanensis1 site
- Guembelastraea whiteavesi1 site
- Meandrostylis vancouverensis1 site
- Minetrigonia suttonensis1 site
- Retiophyllia clathrata1 site
- Retiophyllia dawsoni1 site
- Terebratula suttonensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Vandaites suttonensis, 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
3 references- Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas2
- Latest Triassic ammonoid faunas and biochronology, western Canada2
- The Sutton Jurassic of the Vancouver group, Vancouver Island1
Each of the 5 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. 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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No picture of Vandaites suttonensis 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 Vandaites suttonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vandaites suttonensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVandaites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clapp and Shimer 1911)