Ammobaculites subcretaceus

Ammobaculites subcretaceus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 20 of 67 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 40 of 67 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 67 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 67 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 67 occurrencesLate Cretaceous186–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–179 Mya — about 6 occurrences179–176 Mya — about 11 occurrences176–172 Mya — about 29 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 14 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence174.7 Mya85.7 Mya186 Mya82 Mya

67 occurrences of Ammobaculites subcretaceus on record, most of them in the Middle 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

67 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

Jurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°ETorcer — 31.23°N, 105.55°WHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.48°E

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The named rock units Ammobaculites subcretaceus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ammobaculites subcretaceus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Ammobaculites subcretaceus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Ammobaculites subcretaceus, 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

5 references

Each of the 67 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 3D scan of Ammobaculites subcretaceus 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 itAmmobaculites through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman and Alexander 1930