Hoplitoplacenticeras

Hoplitoplacenticeras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlacenticeratidaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 66 of 66 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 66 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya90.3 Mya65.5 Mya

66 occurrences of Hoplitoplacenticeras 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

66 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

14 formations

Ahlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 7.95°EAhlen — 51.87°N, 7.90°EDaralitau — 38.01°N, 69.09°EDaralitau — 37.45°N, 68.08°EDaralitau — 37.55°N, 67.90°ESanta Marta — 64.17°S, 57.75°WSanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WSaint Cirac — 42.92°N, 1.75°EGulpen — 50.77°N, 6.02°ECerro Cazador — 51.15°S, 72.38°WSt Lucia — 27.99°S, 32.41°EUmzamba — 29.87°S, 31.02°EVaals — 50.78°N, 5.97°ECraie de Valognes — 49.43°N, 1.35°WSt. Lucia — 27.98°S, 32.41°EMzamba — 29.85°S, 31.02°EDaralitau — 38.60°N, 67.20°EGober Chalk — 33.56°N, 95.72°W

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The named rock units Hoplitoplacenticeras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hoplitoplacenticeras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Hoplitoplacenticeras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Hoplitoplacenticeras, 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

25 references

Each of the 66 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. 13 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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Picture of Hoplitoplacenticeras

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Hoplitoplacenticeras 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 itPlacenticeratidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Paulcke 1906