Hoploscaphites sargklofak

Minor, Keith · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HoploscaphitesPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Hoploscaphites sargklofak 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Hoploscaphites sargklofak has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hoploscaphites sargklofak and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Hoploscaphites sargklofak and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Baculites grandis5 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
- Acanthoscaphites1 site
- Aporrhais biangulata1 site
- Astandes densatus1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Baculites baculus1 site
- Crenella1 site
- Cucullaea nebrascensis1 site
- Diploconcha1 site
- Discoscaphites1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Protocardia1 site
- Yoldia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Hoploscaphites sargklofak, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- A new species of scaphitid ammonite from the Lower Maastrichtian of the Western Interior of North America, with Close Affinities to Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby, 18175
- USGS Locality Compendium1
Each of the 6 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 Hoploscaphites sargklofak
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Minor, Keith
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hoploscaphites sargklofak 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 itHoploscaphites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Landman et al. 2015