Duvalia

Searched as Duvalia dilatata dilatata. The Paleobiology Database treats Duvalia as the accepted name.

Duvalia

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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.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous137–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137.6 Mya132.1 Mya

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

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

Brasov — 45.70°N, 25.45°E

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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 Cretaceous

Where Duvalia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

425 taxa

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 reference

Each 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 was 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