Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) varicostatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras)PBDB
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
5 occurrences of Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) varicostatum 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
5 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) varicostatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) varicostatum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) varicostatum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Pseudoschloenbachia (Pseudoschloenbachia) umbulazi2 sites
- Anagaudryceras subtilineatum1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Boehmoceras krekeleri1 site
- Desmophyllites diphylloides1 site
- Didymoceras cheyennense1 site
- Didymoceras hornbyense1 site
- Eupachydiscus isculensis1 site
- Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) denseplicatum1 site
- Gaudryceratinae1 site
- Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni1 site
- Inoceramus expansus1 site
- Jouaniceras sicardi1 site
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) similis1 site
- Libycoceras afikpoense1 site
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) egertoni1 site
- Partschiceras umzambiense1 site
- Phlycticrioceras rude1 site
- Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) rousseli1 site
- Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) woodsi1 site
- Placenticeras maherndli1 site
- Placenticeras paraplanum1 site
- Placenticeras polyopsis1 site
- Pseudoschloenbachia (Pseudoschloenbachia) grossouvrei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) varicostatum, 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
3 references- Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées)2
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Gaudryceratidae2
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Calabar region, south-east Nigeria1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
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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 Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) varicostatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) varicostatum 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 itGaudryceras (Gaudryceras) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (van Hoepen 1921)