Eubaculites

Eubaculites is an extinct genus of cephalopods in the family Baculitidae and each known species was initially placed within the related genus Baculites until it was placed in a separate genus in 1926.

Eubaculites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BaculitidaePBDB
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 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 168 of 168 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 168 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 22 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 22 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 22 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 22 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 22 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 22 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 22 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 9 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya90.3 Mya65.5 Mya

168 occurrences of Eubaculites 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

168 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

30 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.93°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°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 — 32.04°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 31.95°N, 86.70°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 34.49°N, 89.01°WMiria — 22.70°S, 114.24°EMiria — 22.80°S, 114.17°EMiria — 22.89°S, 114.12°EMiria — 22.68°S, 114.26°EMiria — 22.99°S, 114.08°EMiria — 22.80°S, 114.14°ELefipan — 43.04°S, 69.33°WLefipan — 42.84°S, 69.71°WLefipan — 42.68°S, 69.84°WLefipan — 42.83°S, 69.53°WOwl Creek — 34.78°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.44°N, 88.95°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.91°WOwl Creek — 37.01°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 34.50°N, 88.99°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°WQuiriquina — 36.61°S, 72.97°WQuiriquina — 36.61°S, 73.06°WQuiriquina — 36.70°S, 72.97°WQuiriquina — 36.76°S, 73.10°WSt Lucia — 28.45°S, 32.31°ELefipán — 42.83°S, 69.70°WJagüel — 36.90°S, 67.92°WJagüel — 36.83°S, 69.26°WJagüel — 41.63°S, 68.35°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WSevern — 39.04°N, 76.57°WSevern — 38.83°N, 76.85°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.70°WHidden Lake — 63.75°S, 58.00°WMiria Calcarenite — 22.67°S, 114.25°EKorojon — 22.80°S, 114.14°EKorojon — 22.89°S, 114.24°ERipley — 34.45°N, 89.01°WSandy Hook — 40.40°N, 74.12°WCorsicana Marl — 32.19°N, 96.30°WMaastricht — 50.88°N, 5.75°ESaint Lucia — 34.13°S, 25.17°ENavesink — 40.15°N, 74.72°WSanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WKorojon Calcarenite — 22.74°S, 114.19°EValudavur — 12.03°N, 79.75°E

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The named rock units Eubaculites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eubaculites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

672 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Eubaculites, 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

35 references

Each of the 168 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. 23 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 content1

Picture of Eubaculites

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Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itBaculitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1926