Discoscaphites

Discoscaphites is an extinct genus of ammonite. This genus may have been one of the few to have briefly survived the K-Pg mass extinction.

Discoscaphites

Wilson44691 · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScaphitinaePBDB
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 least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 207 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 207 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 206 of 207 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 207 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 79 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 88 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 37 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

207 occurrences of Discoscaphites on record, most of them in the Late 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

207 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

20 formations

Fox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WFox Hills — 44.97°N, 101.20°WFox Hills — 45.77°N, 101.10°WFox Hills — 45.65°N, 100.89°WFox Hills — 45.69°N, 101.02°WFox Hills — 45.33°N, 100.96°WFox Hills — 45.22°N, 101.21°WFox Hills — 45.24°N, 101.52°WFox Hills — 45.59°N, 100.96°WFox Hills — 45.62°N, 100.81°WFox Hills — 45.72°N, 100.82°WFox Hills — 45.70°N, 100.67°WFox Hills — 45.23°N, 101.10°WFox Hills — 45.20°N, 101.30°WFox Hills — 45.73°N, 101.10°WFox Hills — 45.62°N, 100.89°WFox Hills — 44.92°N, 101.28°WFox Hills — 44.95°N, 101.26°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 34.24°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.51°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 32.97°N, 88.55°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.49°N, 88.10°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.95°N, 86.70°WPrairie Bluff — 32.34°N, 86.77°WCorsicana Marl — 33.51°N, 94.67°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.53°N, 96.27°WCorsicana Marl — 32.22°N, 96.31°WCorsicana Marl — 32.05°N, 96.44°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.58°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.74°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.18°N, 99.02°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.82°N, 88.88°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.45°N, 89.00°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.02°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.91°WOwl Creek — 34.50°N, 88.99°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.04°N, 76.57°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WSevern — 38.83°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.00°N, 76.00°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 33.97°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 33.46°N, 88.85°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.14°N, 87.40°WPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 39.87°N, 102.18°WPierre Shale — 45.14°N, 100.88°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WArkadelphia marl — 33.75°N, 93.59°WArkadelphia marl — 33.76°N, 93.65°WArkadelphia marl — 33.73°N, 93.66°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WArkadelphia — 34.38°N, 91.85°WCorsicana — 31.08°N, 96.83°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WSandy Hook — 40.40°N, 74.12°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WFunks — 38.90°N, 122.26°WZimam — 31.12°N, 13.18°EBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.32°WKincaid — 31.08°N, 96.83°WRipley — 34.45°N, 89.01°W

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The named rock units Discoscaphites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discoscaphites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Discoscaphites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

696 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 172 sites for Discoscaphites, 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

22 references

Each of the 207 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. 10 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 content3

Picture of Discoscaphites

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Discoscaphites gulosus · YPM:IP:YPM IP 052815

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Everything alive alongside itScaphitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1870)