Duvalia
Searched as Duvalia cf. dilatata binervioides. The Paleobiology Database treats Duvalia as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DuvaliidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 132.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Duvalia 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Duvalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Duvalia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Duvalia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
425 taxa- Pseudobelus bipartitus11 sites
- Phylloceras10 sites
- Plesiospitidiscus9 sites
- Crioceratites8 sites
- Olcostephanus8 sites
- Pseudobelus8 sites
- Pygope8 sites
- Lytoceras7 sites
- Neolissoceras grasianum7 sites
- Anahamulina6 sites
- Berriasellinae6 sites
- Crioceratites duvalii6 sites
- Hibolites6 sites
- Hibolithes6 sites
- Lamellaptychus6 sites
- Phyllopachyceras infundibulum6 sites
- Spiticeras6 sites
- Vaunagites pistilliformis6 sites
- Berriasibelus5 sites
- Hibolithes jaculiformis5 sites
- Mesohibolitidae5 sites
- Antinomia sima4 sites
- Berriasibelus conicus4 sites
- Kilianella4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Duvalia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Duvalia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDuvaliidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bayle 1878