Cuyaniceras
No picture of Cuyaniceras 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 Cuyaniceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeocomitinaePBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 145.06 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Cuyaniceras 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
- Vaca Muerta Formation3
- Middle part Formation · Caqueza Group2
- Rio Tascadero Formation1
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The named rock units Cuyaniceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cuyaniceras and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cuyaniceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Arca keideli3 sites
- Cucullaea mendozana3 sites
- Garatella neuquensis3 sites
- Splenditrigonia splendida3 sites
- Trigonia carinata3 sites
- Anditrigonia (Anditrigonia) eximia2 sites
- Antarcticoceras1 site
- Argentiniceras noduliferum1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Isognomon1 site
- Notoscabrotrigonia1 site
- Serpula1 site
- Spiticeras (Kilianiceras) fraternum1 site
- Virgotrigonia hugoi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cuyaniceras, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Jurassic and Cretaceous trigoniid bivalves from west-central Argentina3
- Contribucion al Conocimiento de la Estratigrafia de la Formacion Brechas de Buenavista (Limite Jurasico-Cretacico). Region Noroeste de Villavicencio (Meta)2
- Geología del Área Monte Patria-El Maqui, Región de Coquimbo1
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cuyaniceras 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 Cuyaniceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cuyaniceras 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 itNeocomitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.