Gaudryceras varagurense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GaudrycerasPBDB
- 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 8.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya.
5 occurrences of Gaudryceras varagurense 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 varagurense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gaudryceras varagurense and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gaudryceras varagurense and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Hyporbulites seresitensis2 sites
- Anagaudryceras sacya1 site
- Biradiolites1 site
- Cyathocidaris1 site
- Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) japonicum1 site
- Desmoceras kossmati1 site
- Diplomoceratidae1 site
- Eupachydiscus1 site
- Gauthiericeras1 site
- Gauthiericeras margae1 site
- Gauthiericeras roquei1 site
- Goniopygus1 site
- Harleites harlei1 site
- Hemiaster atavus1 site
- Hemitissotia cazini1 site
- Hemitissotia turzoi1 site
- Hippurites1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus1 site
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum crassicostata1 site
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum theobaldianum1 site
- Mantelliceras1 site
- Parajaubertella kawakitana1 site
- Paratexanites serratomarginatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gaudryceras varagurense, 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- The Cenomanian/Turonian boundary in Sakhalin, Far East Russia: ammonites, inoceramids, foraminifera, and radiolarians2
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Gaudryceratidae2
- Coniacian-Maastrichtian of the Tremp Area (South Central Pyrenees)1
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. 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 Gaudryceras varagurense
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gaudryceras varagurense was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kossmat 1895)