Fagesia superstes

Fagesia superstes is a small, subglobular ammonite belonging to the vascoceratid family. This species lived during the Turonian stage of the late Cretaceous, 92-88 Ma ago.

Fagesia superstes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FagesiaPBDB
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 4.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 8 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94.4 Mya89.3 Mya

8 occurrences of Fagesia superstes 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

8 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

4 formations

Mancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WLa Luna — 9.27°N, 68.77°WKef — 35.50°N, 8.88°ECotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°W

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The named rock units Fagesia superstes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fagesia superstes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Fagesia superstes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Fagesia superstes, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 Fagesia superstes

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fagesia superstes 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itFagesia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kossmat 1897)