Acroteuthis onoensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcroteuthisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya.
5 occurrences of Acroteuthis onoensis 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
5 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 Acroteuthis onoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acroteuthis onoensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Acroteuthis onoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Syncyclonema operculiformis2 sites
- Acroteuthis mitchelli1 site
- Ancyloceras elephas1 site
- Gabbioceras1 site
- Hemibaculites neleus1 site
- Hypophylloceras onoense1 site
- Melchiorites indigenes1 site
- Neithea (Neithea) grandicosta1 site
- Plicatula variata1 site
- Ptychoceras natrice1 site
- Shasticrioceras poniente1 site
- Shastoceras behemoth1 site
- Shastoceras shastense1 site
- Trigonia kayana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Acroteuthis onoensis, 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 California4
- Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon1
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. 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 Acroteuthis onoensis 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 Acroteuthis onoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acroteuthis onoensis 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 itAcroteuthis through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anderson 1938