Borealites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TolliinaePBDB
- 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 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
26 occurrences of Borealites 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
26 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Borealites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Borealites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Borealites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Lenticulina7 sites
- Astarte6 sites
- Buchia5 sites
- Buchia okensis5 sites
- Buchia volgensis5 sites
- Entolium5 sites
- Lagonibelus5 sites
- Oxytoma5 sites
- Surites5 sites
- Camptonectes4 sites
- Cleistosphaeridium4 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)4 sites
- Cylindroteuthis4 sites
- Haplophragmoides4 sites
- Hectoroceras4 sites
- Hectoroceras (Hectoroceras) kochi4 sites
- Pareodinia4 sites
- Praetollia4 sites
- Subcraspedites4 sites
- Valensiella4 sites
- Ammodiscus3 sites
- Astacolus3 sites
- Belemnites3 sites
- Buchia fischeriana3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Borealites, 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
3 references- The Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary and the Berriasian Stage in the Boreal Realm17
- Distribution of ammonites, foraminifera and dinoflagellate cysts in the Lower Cretaceous reference sections of the Khatanga Basin, and Boreal Valanginian biogeography7
- Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary of the extreme Arctic (Peary Land, North Greenland)2
Each of the 26 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Borealites 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 Borealites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Borealites 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTolliinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klimova 1969