Baculites undatus
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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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Baculites undatus 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
16 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
4 formations
- Nacatoch Sand Formation10
- Saratoga Chalk Formation · Navarro Group3
- Mount Laurel Sand Formation2
- Neylandville Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Baculites undatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Baculites undatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Baculites undatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
222 taxa- Baculites claviformis9 sites
- Cymbophora9 sites
- Inoceramus9 sites
- Legumen ellipticum8 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum7 sites
- Eutrephoceras planoventer7 sites
- Glossus7 sites
- Granocardium7 sites
- Liopistha protexta7 sites
- Nostoceras (Nostoceras) helicinum7 sites
- Tellina7 sites
- Turritella trilira7 sites
- Anchura6 sites
- Anomalofusus6 sites
- Cardium6 sites
- Corbula6 sites
- Cylichna secalina6 sites
- Leptosolen biplicata6 sites
- Lima6 sites
- Nostoceras (Nostoceras) approximans6 sites
- Tornatellaea6 sites
- Veniella6 sites
- Breviarca5 sites
- Drilluta communis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Baculites undatus, 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
4 references- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas11
- Ammonites from the Saratoga Chalk (Upper Cretaceous), Arkansas3
- Upper Campanian ammonites from the Mount Laurel Sand at Biggs Farm, Delaware1
- Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland1
Each of the 16 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 content0
No picture of Baculites undatus 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 undatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Baculites undatus 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 itBaculites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1941