Epihoplites (Metaclavites)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpihoplitesPBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Epihoplites (Metaclavites) 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Epihoplites (Metaclavites) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Epihoplites (Metaclavites) and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Epihoplites (Metaclavites) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Hysteroceras orbignyi2 sites
- Anisoceras1 site
- Arca1 site
- Aucellina1 site
- Avellana1 site
- Beudanticeras1 site
- Beudanticeras (Beudanticeras) convergens1 site
- Beudanticeras beudanti1 site
- Birostrina1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Callihoplites1 site
- Camerogalerus1 site
- Cantabrigites1 site
- Chondrites1 site
- Confusiscala1 site
- Conulus1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Cyclothyris1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum1 site
- Dicroloma1 site
- Dipoloceras (Dipoloceroides) subdelaruei1 site
- Dipoloceras cristatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Epihoplites (Metaclavites), 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
2 references- Late Albian ammonites from the Aitamir Formation (Koppeh Dagh, northeast Iran)3
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
Each of the 4 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. 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
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No picture of Epihoplites (Metaclavites) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Epihoplites (Metaclavites), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epihoplites (Metaclavites) 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 itEpihoplites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Casey 1965)