Delphinella delphinense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DelphinellaPBDB
- 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.
7 occurrences of Delphinella delphinense 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
7 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.
Delphinella delphinense and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Delphinella delphinense and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Praedalmasiceras progenitor3 sites
- Berriasella oppeli2 sites
- Delphinella crimensis2 sites
- Delphinella janus2 sites
- Pseudoneocomites retowskyi2 sites
- Berriasella1 site
- Berriasella berthei1 site
- Delphinella consanguinea1 site
- Delphinella subchaperi1 site
- Hoplites obtusenodosa1 site
- Pseudosubplanites subrichteri1 site
- Retowskiceras sp.1 site
- Spiticeras pseudogroteanum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Delphinella delphinense, 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- Systematic palaeontology of the Perisphinctoidea in the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary interval at Le Chouet (Drôme, France), and its implications for biostratigraphy4
- Genus Delphinella (Ammonoidea) from the Berriasian of the Crimean Mountains2
- Lower Berriasian ammonites from Dedina (Golubac Mountains, eastern Serbia) and their biostratigraphic implication1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Delphinella delphinense 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 Delphinella delphinense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Delphinella delphinense 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 itDelphinella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kilian 1899)