Beudanticeras

Beudanticeras is an extinct cephalopod genus from the Late Cretaceous period; Albian and Cenomanian, belonging to the ammonoid subclass and included in the family Desmoceratidae.

Beudanticeras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BeudanticeratidaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 104 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 99 of 104 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 104 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 10 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 9 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 8 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 14 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 19 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 19 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 13 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113.2 Mya93.9 Mya144 Mya89 Mya

104 occurrences of Beudanticeras on record, most of them in the Early 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

104 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

27 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.71°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.10°N, 6.82°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.78°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.58°EBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.56°WBudden Canyon — 40.51°N, 122.45°WBudden Canyon — 40.49°N, 122.49°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.60°WHaida — 53.25°N, 132.00°WHaida — 53.05°N, 131.78°WGarschella — 47.46°N, 9.88°EGarschella — 47.35°N, 9.74°EFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.08°EInca — 7.16°S, 78.46°WInca — 7.45°S, 78.18°WBeudanticeras Shale — 32.45°N, 51.78°ECouches du Freu — 46.01°N, 6.35°EBargy Conglomerate — 46.00°N, 6.10°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.26°N, 7.12°ECalcaires de Fiz — 46.10°N, 6.78°EConglomérats de Bargy — 45.97°N, 6.32°EPiedra Clavada — 48.92°S, 71.92°WLowell — 31.35°N, 109.89°WRio Hatillo — 19.17°N, 70.67°WWangarlu Mudstone — 12.38°S, 130.60°ECuracao Lava — 12.15°N, 68.87°WKotick Point — 64.17°S, 57.75°WValle Grande — 10.25°N, 63.92°WHala — 30.75°N, 33.53°EAllaru Mudstone — 20.37°S, 142.23°EAgua Salada — 29.44°N, 109.48°WSchrattenkalk — 47.33°N, 9.54°EGarschella — 47.33°N, 9.54°E

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The named rock units Beudanticeras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Beudanticeras and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Beudanticeras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

544 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Beudanticeras, 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

40 references

Each of the 104 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. 28 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 content1

Picture of Beudanticeras

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Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Beudanticeras was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hitzell 1902