Deshayesites deshayesi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DeshayesitesPBDB
- 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 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
54 occurrences of Deshayesites deshayesi 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
54 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
10 formations
- Sanganeh Formation11
- Argiles à Plicatules Formation10
- Sarcheshmah Formation10
- Forcall Formation7
- Atherfield Clay Formation · Lower Greensand Group5
- Hythe Formation · Lower Greensand Group2
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The named rock units Deshayesites deshayesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Deshayesites deshayesi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Deshayesites deshayesi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
188 taxa- Aconeceras (Aconeceras) haugi10 sites
- Cheloniceras8 sites
- Deshayesites multicostatus4 sites
- Tropaeum4 sites
- Xerticeras salasi4 sites
- Pseudosaynella3 sites
- Pterotrigonia3 sites
- Aconeceras nisoides2 sites
- Ancyloceras mantelli2 sites
- Anomia laevigata2 sites
- Atherfieldastacus magnus2 sites
- Cheloniceras cornuelianum2 sites
- Deshayesites grandis2 sites
- Exogyra2 sites
- Falcimytilus lanceolata2 sites
- Gervillia2 sites
- Gervillia linguloides2 sites
- Globularia sublaevigata2 sites
- Hoploparia longimana2 sites
- Longinuculana spathulata2 sites
- Melchiorites melchioris2 sites
- Mesosaccella scapha2 sites
- Mithracites2 sites
- Modiolus aequalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Deshayesites deshayesi, 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
13 references- Ammonite families Phylloceratidae, Gaudryceratidae, Oppeliidae and Desmoceratidae from Kopet Dagh Basin NE of Iran; palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological application21
- Two ammonite species under the same name: Revision of Deshayesites deshayesi (d’Orbigny, 1841) based on topotype material (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous, northeast of France)10
- Xerticeras gen. nov., a new genus of micromorphic heteromorph ammonite (Ancyloceratina, Ancyloceratidae)from the lower Aptian of Spain6
- The stratigraphy of the Atherfield Clay Formation (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) at the type and other localities in southern England4
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand4
- On records of re-deposited Lower Cretaceous fauna on northern slope of the south-east Caucasus2
- Sequence Stratigraphy and Rudist Facies Development of the Upper Barremian-Lower Cenomanian Platform, Northern Sinai, Egypt1
- Aptian-Albian Carbonate Platforms: Central Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Northern Spain1
- Origin and evolutionary history of Anglonautilus (Nautilida, Cymatoceratidae) and a new species from the lower Aptian of Spain1
- Status of "Trigonia ventricosa" (Bivalvia) from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Kutch, western India: Kitchin's unfinished synthesis1
- The Aptian stratigraphy of the southern Tuarkyr (NW Turkmenistan, Central Asia)1
- The Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand, part IX1
Each of the 54 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. 1 further reference is 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 Deshayesites deshayesi
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No 3D scan of Deshayesites deshayesi 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 itDeshayesites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1841)