Amaltheus viligaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmaltheusPBDB
- 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 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Amaltheus viligaensis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
3 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
- Fannin Formation · Maude Group1
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The named rock units Amaltheus viligaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amaltheus viligaensis and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Amaltheus viligaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Amaltheus margaritatus1 site
- Arieticeras domarense1 site
- Fuciniceras (Paltarpites) aequiondulatum1 site
- Kolymonectes1 site
- Lioceratoides (Lioceratoides) allifordense1 site
- Lioceratoides (Lioceratoides) grecoi1 site
- Lioceratoides (Lioceratoides) involutum1 site
- Oxytoma1 site
- Protogrammoceras (Paltarpites) paltum1 site
- Protogrammoceras (Protogrammoceras)1 site
- Tiltoniceras antiquum1 site
- Tiltoniceras propinquum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Amaltheus viligaensis, 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- Biostratigraphy of the Lower and Middle Jurassic deposits of the Far East2
- Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) ammonites of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Amaltheus viligaensis 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 Amaltheus viligaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amaltheus viligaensis 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 itAmaltheus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tuchkov 1954)