Ammodiscus cretaceus

Ammodiscus cretaceus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmmodiscusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ammodiscidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ammodiscidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100.5 Mya48.07 Mya115 Mya32 Mya

13 occurrences of Ammodiscus cretaceus 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

13 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

3 formations

Ferriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°EFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.23°WNorthumberland — 49.17°N, 123.75°WAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°E

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The named rock units Ammodiscus cretaceus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ammodiscus cretaceus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ammodiscus cretaceus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Ammodiscus cretaceus, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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

Media content1

Picture of Ammodiscus cretaceus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAmmodiscus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1845