Baculites rectus
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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 most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 86.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Baculites rectus 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
18 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
6 formations
- Kahuitara Tuff Formation · Pitt Island Group4
- Santa Marta Formation4
- Okarahia Sandstone Formation · Mata Group3
- Te Mai Formation · Tinui Group1
- Williams Formation1
- Otamatea Formation1
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The named rock units Baculites rectus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Baculites rectus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Baculites rectus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
188 taxa- Lima (Limatula) woodsi8 sites
- Dentalium6 sites
- Entolium membranaceum6 sites
- Lahillia5 sites
- Rotularia5 sites
- Struthioptera5 sites
- Amphidonte conica4 sites
- Baculites bailyi4 sites
- Chlamys4 sites
- Dimitobelus4 sites
- Dimitobelus (Dimitocamax) hectori4 sites
- Echinoidea4 sites
- Eutrephoceras4 sites
- Inoceramus pacificus4 sites
- Maorites4 sites
- Ostreidae4 sites
- Panopea4 sites
- Rhynchonellidae4 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
- Chlamys (Mixtipecten)3 sites
- Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica3 sites
- Eriptycha3 sites
- Eupachydiscus3 sites
- Gaudryceras3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Baculites rectus, 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
11 references- Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand3
- Tectonic and palaeobiogeographic significance of the Chatham Islands, South Pacific, Late Cretaceous fauna2
- Cretaceous-Cenozoic geology and biostratigraphy of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand2
- Asociaciones de amonites de la formacion Santa Marta (Cretacio Tardio), Isla James Ross, Antartida2
- Campanian-Maastrichtian (Cretaceous) stratigraphy of the James Ross Island area, Antarctica2
- The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56)2
- Geology of the Tinui-Awatoitoi District1
- The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff District, South Marlborough1
- Distribution, stratigraphy and stratigraphic relationships of Cretaceous sediments, western Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand1
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III1
- The Upper Cretaceous ammonites of New Zealand1
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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Baculites rectus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Baculites rectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Marshall 1926