Wailiceras aemulus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WailicerasPBDB
- 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 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 248.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Wailiceras aemulus 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
8 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Wailiceras aemulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Wailiceras aemulus and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Wailiceras aemulus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Cordillerites antrum4 sites
- Ambites superior3 sites
- Kashmirites kapila3 sites
- Guangxiceltites admirabilis2 sites
- Paranorites jenksi2 sites
- Confusionella loczyi1 site
- Hedenstroemia kossmati1 site
- Inyoites beaverensis1 site
- Larenites reticulatus1 site
- Leptochondria xijinwulanensis1 site
- Neomorphotis comta1 site
- Rohillites1 site
- Submeekoceras mushbachanum1 site
- Wyomingites aplanatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Wailiceras aemulus, 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
2 references- Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi (South China): taxonomy and biochronology7
- Smithian ammonoid faunas from Utah: implications for Early Triassic biostratigraphy, correlation and basinal paleogeography1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Wailiceras aemulus 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 Wailiceras aemulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wailiceras aemulus 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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What may have been alongside itWailiceras through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brayard and Bucher 2008