Baculites ovatus

Baculites ovatus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 50 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 49 of 50 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 8 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 8 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 8 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 8 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 5 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

50 occurrences of Baculites ovatus 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

50 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

16 formations

Saratoga Chalk — 33.77°N, 93.68°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.75°N, 93.90°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.72°N, 93.67°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.87°N, 93.58°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.70°N, 93.96°WPawkowki — 49.19°N, 111.89°WPawkowki — 49.10°N, 111.35°WPawkowki — 49.01°N, 111.61°WPawkowki — 49.10°N, 111.15°WPawkowki — 49.01°N, 111.21°WWapiabi — 52.92°N, 115.23°WWapiabi — 54.74°N, 114.28°WWapiabi — 53.00°N, 115.00°WWapiabi — 52.61°N, 116.34°WWapiabi — 51.14°N, 115.00°WWapiabi — 52.26°N, 115.88°WWapiabi — 51.00°N, 113.00°WDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°EDakhla — 25.90°N, 28.60°EDakhla — 25.74°N, 28.96°EPierre — 43.92°N, 102.58°WPierre — 44.19°N, 99.70°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WNavesink — 40.41°N, 74.03°WNew Egypt — 39.73°N, 75.16°WNew Egypt — 39.80°N, 75.09°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMerchantville — 40.14°N, 74.72°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.79°N, 75.63°WLea Park — 52.83°N, 110.87°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WDuwi — 25.73°N, 30.69°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Baculites ovatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Baculites ovatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Baculites ovatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

549 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Baculites ovatus, 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

17 references

Each of the 50 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 ovatus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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.

Keep going

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. Say 1820