Holcoptychites
Searched as Holcoptychites aff. neuquensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Holcoptychites as the accepted name.
No picture of Holcoptychites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Holcoptychites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpitidiscinaePBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 125.77 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Holcoptychites on record, most of them in the Early 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
1 occurrences- Early 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Holcoptychites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Holcoptychites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Holcoptychites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Cucullaea7 sites
- Ptychomya6 sites
- Leanzatrigonia coihuicoensis4 sites
- Steinmanella4 sites
- Entolium3 sites
- Eriphyla3 sites
- Eriphyla argentina3 sites
- Myoconcha3 sites
- Panopea3 sites
- Steinmanella transitoria3 sites
- Trigonia carinata3 sites
- Ceratostreon2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Columastrea antiqua2 sites
- Cymatoceras perstriatum2 sites
- Gervillaria2 sites
- Mimachlamys robinaldina2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Pholadomya gigantea2 sites
- Pinna robinaldina2 sites
- Pleurotomaria2 sites
- Serpulidae2 sites
- Tanzanitrigonia agrioensis2 sites
- Acanthodiscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Holcoptychites, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Holcoptychites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Holcoptychites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSpitidiscinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.