Acuturris scotus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcuturrisPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 12 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72.2 Mya – 66 Mya145 Mya60 Mya

12 occurrences of Acuturris scotus on record, most of them in the Late 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

12 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

4 formations

Jagüel — 39.86°S, 66.62°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 67.62°WJagüel — 39.20°S, 67.38°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.38°WLa Colonia — 42.83°S, 68.45°WPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WColorado — 39.50°S, 62.68°W

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The named rock units Acuturris scotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Acuturris scotus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Acuturris scotus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Acuturris scotus, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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 Acuturris scotus 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 Acuturris scotus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acuturris scotus 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 itAcuturris through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rissati 1973)