Colchidites

Colchidites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AncyloceratidaePBDB
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 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 14 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous126–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126.3 Mya120.9 Mya

14 occurrences of Colchidites 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

14 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

3 formations

Makatini — 27.17°S, 32.17°ERio Mayer — 48.28°S, 72.00°WRio Mayer — 48.38°S, 71.80°WPaja — 5.63°N, 73.58°W

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The named rock units Colchidites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colchidites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Colchidites, 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

5 references

Each of the 14 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

Picture of Colchidites

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Colchidites 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.

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What may have been alongside itAncyloceratidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.