Deltoidonautilus

Deltoidonautilus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HercoglossidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 67 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 67 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 67 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 49 of 67 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 67 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 7 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93.9 Mya37.71 Mya102 Mya33 Mya

67 occurrences of Deltoidonautilus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

67 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

22 formations

London Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.54°N, 0.16°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°ELondon Clay — 51.63°N, 0.16°WDaban — 10.33°N, 45.22°ETeberemt — 16.97°N, 2.60°ETeberemt — 17.40°N, 0.43°ETeberemt — 16.67°N, 0.50°ETeberemt — 18.87°N, 0.24°WNaredi — 23.57°N, 68.62°ENaredi — 23.65°N, 68.69°ENaredi — 23.53°N, 68.68°ESimsima — 25.07°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.05°N, 55.81°EOkinoshima — 32.69°N, 129.78°EAuradu — 10.38°N, 45.17°EAuradu — 10.47°N, 45.42°ELandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°ESubathu — 30.98°N, 77.02°EKalambaina — 13.12°N, 5.43°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EAmeki — 5.55°N, 7.60°EChorgali — 32.69°N, 72.88°EKarkar — 9.28°N, 48.32°ETalara — 4.74°S, 81.30°WKalambaina — 14.83°N, 5.65°ESaman — 4.74°S, 81.30°WSimsima — 24.48°N, 55.92°ETerebratula — 4.20°S, 81.15°WSalina — 5.14°S, 81.17°WTarawan — 25.73°N, 30.69°ETeberemt, Tamaguélelt, Continental Terminal — 16.30°N, 2.75°E

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The named rock units Deltoidonautilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Deltoidonautilus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Deltoidonautilus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

581 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Deltoidonautilus, 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

24 references

Each of the 67 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. 12 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 Deltoidonautilus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Spath 1927