Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EutrephocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Nautilidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilidae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
26 occurrences of Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum 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
26 occurrences- Late 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
7 formations
- Lopez de Bertodano Formation5
- Upper Lopez de Bertodano Formation5
- Quiriquina Formation2
- Santa Marta Formation2
- Snow Hill Formation1
- Rosario Formation1
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The named rock units Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Diplomoceras cylindraceum3 sites
- Grossouvrites joharae3 sites
- Maorites densicostatus3 sites
- Acesta2 sites
- Amberleya2 sites
- Anthozoa2 sites
- Baculites anceps2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Conchocele townsendi2 sites
- Cryptorhytis2 sites
- Echinoids indet.2 sites
- Eunaticina2 sites
- Forcipites sabulosus2 sites
- Galeodea2 sites
- Gaudryceras seymouriense2 sites
- Goniomya2 sites
- Impletosphaeridium clavus2 sites
- Kitchinites darwini2 sites
- Labile larseni2 sites
- Laevitrigonia2 sites
- Microcachryidites antarcticus2 sites
- Nothofagidites dorotensis2 sites
- Nothofagus2 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) ootacodensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum, 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
8 references- Nautilids from the Upper Cretaceous of the James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula6
- Evolution and extinction of Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) cephalopods from the López de Bertodano Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica5
- Eutrephoceras subplicatum (Steinmann, 1895) is a junior synonym of Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum (Forbes in Darwin, 1846) (Cephalopoda, Nautiloidea) from the Maastrichtian Quiriquina Formation of Chile5
- The Upper Cretaceous cephalopod fauna of Graham Land4
- Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous/Paleocene shelf-deltaic sediments of Seymour Island3
- Algunos cefalópodos supracretácicos de Río Turbio (Santa Cruz)1
- Cretaceous and Tertiary Nautiloids from Angola1
- Cretaceous geology of Lower California1
Each of the 26 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
Media content1
Picture of Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum 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 itEutrephoceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1846)