Acanthoplites gardneri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthohoplitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Acanthoplites gardneri on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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- Early Cretaceous100%
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 Acanthoplites gardneri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acanthoplites gardneri and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Acanthoplites gardneri and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Ptychoceras laeve3 sites
- Acanthoplites aegis2 sites
- Argonauticeras argonautarum2 sites
- Euphylloceras californicum2 sites
- Hulenites reesidei2 sites
- Nanonavis breweriana2 sites
- Cheloniceras reesidei1 site
- Eotetragonites wintunius1 site
- Gabbioceras angulatum1 site
- Hamulina aldersona1 site
- Hemibaculites cyclopius1 site
- Holcophylloceras aldersoni1 site
- Holcophylloceras falcatum1 site
- Melchiorites indigenes1 site
- Melchiorites shastensis1 site
- Parahoplites macfarlandi1 site
- Parahoplites stantoni1 site
- Phyllopachyceras1 site
- Pleurotomaria californica1 site
- Puzosia1 site
- Tetragonites (Tetragonites) timotheanus1 site
- Zuercherella zuercheri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Acanthoplites gardneri, 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- Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic units of Northern California5
- Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon1
Each 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 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 Acanthoplites gardneri 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 Acanthoplites gardneri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acanthoplites gardneri 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 itAcanthohoplites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1938)