Ammobaculites

Searched as Ammobaculites coprolithiformis. The Paleobiology Database treats Ammobaculites as the accepted name.

Ammobaculites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmmomarginulininaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 18 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 4 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 5 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154.8 Mya72.2 Mya163 Mya64 Mya

18 occurrences of Ammobaculites on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

18 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

5 formations

Hanifa — 22.75°N, 46.63°EHanifa — 22.08°N, 45.90°EHanifa — 21.83°N, 46.13°EHanifa — 21.08°N, 45.68°EArgiles de Lamoriciere — 34.90°N, 1.03°WDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°E

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The named rock units Ammobaculites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ammobaculites and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ammobaculites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,791 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 426 sites for Ammobaculites, and this reads 240 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

8 references

Each of the 18 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

Media content1

Picture of Ammobaculites

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ammobaculites 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 itAmmomarginulininae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1910