Baculites haresi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BaculitesPBDB
- 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 least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
20 occurrences of Baculites haresi 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
20 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
9 formations
- Wapiabi Formation · Alberta Group6
- Mancos Shale Formation3
- Pawkowki Formation3
- Niobrara Formation2
- Merchantville Formation2
- Itilli Formation1
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The named rock units Baculites haresi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Baculites haresi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Baculites haresi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
151 taxa- Inoceramus6 sites
- Baculites ovatus5 sites
- Scaphites hippocrepis5 sites
- Placenticeras syrtale4 sites
- Baculites aquilaensis3 sites
- Baculites obtusus3 sites
- Menabites (Delawarella) vanuxemi3 sites
- Cataceramus balticus2 sites
- Desmoscaphites bassleri2 sites
- Lucina2 sites
- Menabites (Delawarella) delawarensis2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Placenticeras2 sites
- Platyceramus cycloides2 sites
- Scaphites2 sites
- Scaphites (Scaphites) leei2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
- Volutoderma2 sites
- Acirsa1 site
- Anatimya anteradiata1 site
- Anchura1 site
- Anisomyon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Baculites haresi, 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
12 references- The Cretaceous Alberta Group and equivalent rocks, Rocky Mountain foothills, Alberta5
- Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group3
- Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonites from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware2
- Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation in the Raton basin, New Mexico2
- Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Campanian) ammonite systematic paleontology and biostratigraphy, southeastern San Juan Basin, Sandoval County, New Mexico1
- An endemic cephalopod assemblage from the Lower Campanian (Late Cretaceous) Parras Shale, western Coahuila, Mexico1
- Santonian Ammonites from the Blossom Sand in Northeast Texas1
- Prognathodon stadtmani: (Mosasauridae) a new species from the Mancos Shale (Lower Campanian) of western Colorado1
- Campanian ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous Gober Chalk of Lamar County, Texas1
- Ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of West Greenland1
- Cephalopods of the Pierre Formation of Wallace County, Kansas, and adjacent area1
- American Journal of Science1
Each of the 20 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 content2

Picture of Baculites haresi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itBaculites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reeside 1927)