Discoscaphites iris

Discoscaphites iris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiscoscaphitesPBDB
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 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 23 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

23 occurrences of Discoscaphites iris 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

23 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

6 formations

Owl 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, 89.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.91°WOwl Creek — 34.50°N, 88.99°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 33.97°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 33.46°N, 88.85°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.14°N, 87.40°WArkadelphia — 34.38°N, 91.85°WZimam — 31.12°N, 13.18°E

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The named rock units Discoscaphites iris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Discoscaphites iris and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

382 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Discoscaphites iris, 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

6 references

Each of the 23 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Discoscaphites iris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
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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What may have been alongside itDiscoscaphites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1858